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Introducing Extendable Articles

A new type of media that uses AI to expand your perspective

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Tintin 8 months ago

Such a cool new feature, well done team.

Dan Shipper 7 months ago

@Tintin thank you! glad to see you back!

@federicoescobarcordoba 8 months ago

This is a brilliant idea. What a way to use the power of AI to change the reading and writing process. It would be neat to include a brief and a longer version by default. Also neat would be to supply the AI with versions of the article (drafts) so that it can also comment on the writing process (such as the original opening paragraph of the piece, say). Again, wonderful idea.

Dan Shipper 7 months ago

@federicoescobarcordoba thank you!! yeah these are great ideas. I love the idea of exposing the drafts.

we'll keep tweaking it over time. thanks for sharing!

Oshyan Greene 8 months ago

I agree this is a very interesting idea. And yet... I can't imagine myself actually using the feature beyond initial novelty. Maybe that will change if a particularly compelling or challenging (to my worldview) article comes along, or if the actual experience ends up being compelling in ways I can't anticipate. I suspect (sadly, perhaps pessimistically) that it won't do much to actually change more minds or make people more confident in the stories told (as somewhat suggested in the inspiration for creating this). But I love the experimentation and would love even more to be surprised by the results! I hope (and expect) that you have analytics already built in that might help evaluate its impact.

Evan Armstrong 8 months ago

@Oshyan I agree with your assessment. I think it would be really interesting to do this extended media again but take on a highly divisive topic: AI in warfare, bioengineering, DEI, etc. If I have a take that basically everyone disagrees with, maybe instead of arguing with me in the comments they'll argue with the chatbot instead?

Oshyan Greene 8 months ago

@ItsUrBoyEvan Oh yeah, now we're talkin'! I would love to see what happens in that scenario.

Philipp Götza 7 months ago

I love the idea and experiment. Not sure how much I will use it in the end, but I support the boldness.

Two things I noticed when using it:

1) If the chat window is part of an article, it would be nice if it could be collapsed, moving the content in the center once again on desktop/bigger screens.

2) On my tablet, when rotating the screen, the chat at the top blocks navigation and once opened I can't close it anymore. I tested this on mobile as well, which works just fine with the option to close the expanded chat window.

Dan Shipper 7 months ago

@philipp.goetza great feedback! Yes will iterate on this to see if we can find something people love to use

yasin thakur 5 months ago

great efforts. how to get access to Extendable Media. how can we read more extendable articles after reading the religion of ramp.

Tom Parish 7 months ago

Very cool. Now you have to tell us ‘how’ you implemented this!

Dan Shipper 7 months ago

@tom.parish oooh good idea for an article, thanks

@taschmidtphotography 7 months ago

Amazing! You guys and gals are on a fantastic roll. Cannot wait to see where you take it.

Dan Shipper 7 months ago

@taschmidtphotography thanks so much!! stay tuned, more to come :)

Sunnie Southern 8 months ago

Wow! I LOVE this execution. It allows the writer to share his/ her perspective on their findings AND it allows the reader to explore and make conclusions for him/ herself. This would be incredible for scientific and medical research. The big funders of research like the NIH and the Gates Foundation require that the data that is used in the search is made "open" so that others can benefit from the underlying data paid for by taxpayers and/ or non-profits and the results can be independently validated. I am not an expert in this area, but if you'd like to discuss the application, feel free to reach out. @SunnieSouthern on LI.

Dan Shipper 7 months ago

@sunnie thank you!! would love to see more people adopt this kind of thing

Rgarber 8 months ago

Is this conceptually a use-case of NotebookLM flipped outwards with a public view ?

Dan Shipper 7 months ago

@rgarber it could be seen that way, yeah! I hadn't thought of that but totally a good way to look at it