Google is committed to implementing AI search on more and more of its products, and its latest victim is YouTube. A new feature called “Ask YouTube” will let you ask complex questions and get “comprehensive results that include video and text, then ask follow ups to dig deeper,” Google explained on its YouTube Labs page. The experimental feature is available to Premium US customers aged 18 and older from today until June 8.
To use it, first enable this feature in your account. Then, click the new “Ask YouTube” button in the search bar and you’ll see prompt suggestions, or you can enter your own suggestion, like “Plan a 3-day road trip between San Francisco and Santa Barbara.” After receiving the results, you can attempt follow-up questions or choose from suggested prompts to learn in more detail.
as shown The VergeIn a quick test, the prompt “A Brief History of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing” brought up a summary of the mission with video and time stamps for pertinent information. Follow-up queries returned similar results, but some queries only showed a list of videos, like you see in a classic YouTube search. As is the case with AI, one of the searches (around the Steam controller) yielded factually incorrect information, according to The VergeJ Peters.
Tech companies love AI a lot more than the public, and YouTube users are especially fond of hating AI-generated slurs. YouTube’s AI search function could perform better with customers, but only if it helps them find quality content more quickly.
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