When My Blog Became a Channel: Launching The AI Grandad on YouTube

After my last post, (When My Blog Became a Video: Testing NotebookLM’s “Video Overview”). where I introduced you to NotebookLM, I found myself thinking about how best to share future AI experiments. Some ideas simply needed a video format, so I’ve launched a brand-new YouTube channel: The AI Grandad.

Why a YouTube Channel?

NotebookLM has already changed how I think about my blog. It can summarise, analyse, and now even turn my posts into short, engaging videos. Once I saw what it could do, I realised this could become a regular feature.

The YouTube channel will act as an experimental space, a bit of a hotchpotch, admittedly, but that’s part of the fun. It’s where I’ll explore what happens when blog posts become videos, and when AI becomes both collaborator and storyteller.

The First Experiments

I started by asking NotebookLM to create Video Overviews of individual posts, and I was genuinely blown away by the results. So much so, that I’m planning to make a video version for all posts.

At the moment, you can find two over on The AI Grandad channel (with more on the way):

• The Art of The Impossible Prompt, linked to my blog post, The Art of The Impossible Prompt. (I might need to give the video a slightly different title, we’ll see!)
• Painting The Future, linked to the post, Painting the Future: What AI Art Means for the Next Generation.

Both show how NotebookLM can transform written ideas into something visual, accessible, and, dare I say, quite inspiring.

What’s Next?

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be testing how NotebookLM handles tone, pacing, and personality. Can it capture the same voice that you find here on the blog? And how might this change the way we create and consume stories online?

If you’re curious, do have a look at the channel and let me know what you think, I’d love to hear your thoughts on where this experiment could go next.

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