Too Long, Didn’t Watch? YouTube’s AI Chatbot Answers Your Video Questions
Have a question about a YouTube video you didn’t understand or just didn’t want to watch? You can ask the AI chatbot rolling out from the video platform to answer all those questions, at least if you’re a Premium subscriber on an Android device. The AI, likely powered by Google’s Gemini AI models, can summarize and expand on every aspect of the video on your screen, like a friend who’s just memorized every video on the platform.
The chatbot integrates AI into your viewing experience on the YouTube app via a card in the comments section. You can swipe through to find the Ask card, which opens a place to text the chatbot. There, you can ask for a summary or start a conversation about the video. YouTube envisions people asking the AI to explain what the video is about, clarify details, and recommend more videos to watch. In theory, it could help creators who would otherwise have to moderate the comments section for people asking questions or looking for more information.
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The chatbot fits neatly into both YouTube and Google’s broader strategy to make Gemini-powered AI tools ubiquitous in your life, especially on your smartphone. YouTube has released or is working on releasing features such as AI-powered chatbots that mimic celebrities and fictional characters and a tool to help you skip to the most popular part of a video.
That’s on top of an avalanche of creator AI features like an AI music generator, which works in tandem with one that can remove copyrighted music from your video without deleting it entirely. You can even ask an AI chatbot for inspiration for your next video and use the upcoming Dream Screen AI to create backgrounds for your video. At the rate Google is moving, AI is going to become as central to creating and watching videos on YouTube as the standard plea to like and subscribe that’s heard at the end of 99% of videos on the platform.