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Artificial Intelligence for Musicians

  1. Introduction
  2. Emergent Harmonic Structures | Software 1.0
  3. Pythagoras and the Music of the Spheres
  4. Building the Modes from Ancient Theory
  5. Harmonic Ratios in Nature and Music
  6. Musical Mathematics
  7. Exploring Chance and Randomness
  8. Statistics of Sound
  9. Software 2.0 | Deep Learning: Teaching Computers to See
  10. Software 2.0 | Deep Learning: Teaching Computers to Hear
  11. Software 3.0 | Generative AI: Teaching Computers to Read & Write
  12. Software 3.0 | Gemini Notebook as RAG

Chapter 11: Software 3.0 | Gemini Notebook as RAG

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11.1 What Is RAG?

You've learned what AI is, from the hand-written rules of Software 1.0 to the learned models of 2.0 and the generative chatbots of 3.0. Now you wield it. In Chapter 10 you saw why a chatbot can sound confident and still be wrong: it's guessing plausible next words with nothing anchoring it to the truth. RAG tackles that by handing the AI your own trusted sources to answer from. This chapter turns a confident guesser into a grounded research partner, using a free, no-code tool called Gemini Notebook (until mid-2026, NotebookLM).

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