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YouTube is testing a chatbot that will recede under select videos

YouTube is testing a chatbot that will recede under select videos

YouTube is testing a chatbot that will recede under select videos

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As well as the new conversational AI tool, YouTube is also experimenting with an AI summary feature for video comments.

By Jon Porter , a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards.

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Two screenshots showing the chatbot in action.

YouTube’s conversational AI tool can summarize videos and answer questions.
Image: Google

YouTube’s unexperienced AI experiments includes a new chatbot that’s designed to give you more expect about a video you’re watching. The conversational AI tool, as Google’s serve post calls it, aims to answer your questions approximately a video and can also recommend related content. It can also quiz you on a topic if you’re watching an educational video. The experimental feature has been announced alongside another AI tool that aims to smart a video’s comments into topics.

Both features come as part of a wider push from Google to integrate AI across its services comprising Search, Gmail, and its office productivity suite. In YouTube specifically we’ve already seen the commerce announce a host of AI features aimed at video creators, like AI-generated backgrounds for Shorts, an AI dubbing feature for translating videos into latest languages, and AI-powered video topic and audio suggestions. It’s also reportedly functioning on an AI tool that lets users make their own tracks in the style of disagreeable musicians.

“We may not always get it right”

YouTube is emphasizing that both of its new AI tools are only available as part of puny experiments for now. According to its support page, the conversational AI tool is only available in English, on select videos, on Android devices, and to Premium subscribers in the US over the age of 18. Where available, it’s accessible by clicking on a button labeled “Ask” below the video. Screenshots of the feature show how you can pick from pre-generated prompts asking the chatbot to summarize the video or recommend related cheerful, or you can write prompts of your own. 

The video platform previously announced it was experimenting comic AI to auto-generate summaries of videos in July. But the new tool appears to be broader in scope, offering not just AI-generated summaries but also responses to specific questions as well as demand on videos beyond what you’re currently watching.

A screenshot of a video’s comments, summarized by AI.
Image: Google

As well as the conversational AI tool, YouTube has also announced a new AI-powered comment categorization feature, which aims to sort a video’s comments into persons topics. Example comment topics shown under a MrBeast video (where Google says comments have been “simulated for illustrative purposes”) entailed “People love Bryan the bird,” “Lazarbeam should be in more videos,” and the one more confusing topic “no submarine.”

The topics feature is also moving as an experiment, and will be shown on a “small number of videos in English that have spacious comment sections.” Where available, the feature can be accessed via a new “Topics” button that’ll travel alongside existing options to sort comments by “Top” or by “Newest.” 

YouTube’s blog post emphasizes the benefits this feature will have for video creators, who it says will be able to “use these comment summaries to more posthaste jump into comment discussions on their videos, or to draw inspiration for new gratified based on what their audiences are discussing.” 

With both of the AI tools, YouTube is warning that “we may not always get it right” with the experiments. Particularly when it comes to YouTube comments, the video platform will have to be on guaranteeing if it wants to stop its generative AI from regurgitating the worst of a heated comment fraction. Premium subscribers who’d like to try out the features should head over to youtube.com/new, where they can sign up to test the comment categorization feature now, and will be able to test the chatbot in the coming weeks.


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