YouTube is testing a chatbot that will appear under select videos
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#6G688)
YouTube's conversational AI tool can summarize videos and answer questions. | Image: Google YouTube's latest AI experiments includes a new chatbot that's designed to give you more information about a video you're watching. The conversational AI tool, as Google's support post calls it, aims to answer your questions about 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 organize a video's comments into topics.
Both features come as part of a wider push from Google to integrate AI across its services including Search, Gmail, and its office productivity suite. In YouTube specifically we've already seen the company announce a host of AI features aimed at video creators, like...