Bio

I find Google’s NotebookLM to be one of the most powerful tools for researchers these days. Its core function is to work with the material you upload. Hence, it differs from ChatGPT and other tools that invent things on their own or search the web. It also has many different types of reports, including audio and video. But how accurate is it? Testing NotebookLM To test NotebookLM on some material I know very well, I decided to provide it with a collection of public data about myself, more specifically, what I have registered in the Norwegian NVA system, which is the database we use in Norway to register all our academic activities. This includes academic publications, public lectures, artistic works, interviews, etc. In my case, that contains around 1000 entries dating back to 2000. ...

Alexander Refsum Jensenius is a music researcher and research musician. His research focuses on why music makes us move, which he explores through empirical studies using different motion sensing technologies. He also uses the analytical knowledge and tools to create new music, with both traditional and very untraditional instruments. As chair of the NIME steering committee, he is a leading figure in the international computer music community. From 2017 he co-directs RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, an interdisciplinary centre of excellence at the University of Oslo. As a member of the EUA Expert Group on Science 2.0/Open Science, he is also involved in modernising the way research is conceived and conducted. ...