YouTube is testing a chatbot that will appear within specific videos

YouTube’s latest AI experiment includes a new chatbot designed to give you more information about the video you’re watching. the Conversational AI toollike Google’s support post calls it, aims to answer your questions about a video and can also recommend related content. It can also ask you a question about a topic if you’re watching an educational video. The beta feature was announced alongside another AI tool that aims to organize video comments into topics.

YouTube stresses that both new AI tools are only available as part of limited trials at the moment. According to its support page, the conversational AI tool is only available in English, on select videos, on Android devices, and to US Premium subscribers over 18. Where available, they can be accessed by clicking on a button called “Ask” below the video. Screenshots of this feature show how you can choose from pre-created prompts that ask the chatbot to summarize the video or recommend related content, or you can write prompts of your own.

The video platform previously announced that it was experimenting with using artificial intelligence to automatically generate video summaries in July. But the new tool appears to be broader, offering not only AI-generated summaries, but also answers to specific questions as well as information about videos beyond what you’re currently watching.

In addition to the AI ​​conversation tool, YouTube also announced a new AI-powered comment classification feature, which aims to sort video comments into individual topics. Examples of comment topics are shown under A Mr. Best video (With Google saying the comments were “simulated for illustrative purposes”) they include “People love Brian the Bird,” “Lazarbeam should be in more videos,” and the slightly more confusing “No Submarine.”

The Topics feature is also running as an experiment, and will be offered on “a small number of English-language videos that have large comment sections.” Where available, the feature can be accessed via a new “Topics” button that will appear alongside existing options to sort comments by “Top” or by “Most Recent.”

YouTube’s blog post underscores the benefits this feature will bring to video creators, who say they’ll be able to “use these comment summaries to more quickly jump into comment discussions on their videos, or draw inspiration for new content based on who their audience is.” discussion.”

With both AI tools, YouTube warns that “we may not always be successful” in the experiments. Especially when it comes to YouTube comments, the video platform needs to be on its toes if it wants to stop generative AI from replicating the worst of a hot comments section. Premium subscribers who want to try out the features should head over to youtube.com/newThey can register to test the comment rating feature now, and they will be able to test the chatbot in the coming weeks.