Many services are adding AI-based features and YouTube, as the largest representative of video platforms, cannot be an exception in this regard. In recent months, we have seen several examples, such as the use of bots that facilitate the review and moderation of comments or, more recently, the automatic dubbing of videos into other languages, a type of automatic conversion based on artificial intelligence that is also starting to be present in other services.

With its uses, some more appropriate and some less so (as I already mentioned when talking about Now and Then), there is no doubt artificial intelligence is here to stay. Admittedly, if we go by Gartner’s ever-referenced Hype Cycle, it seems likely that we are currently climbing to the top of the peak of overblown expectations and that at some point we will see things calm down and even decline somewhat. occur, but Despite this, we can be quite clear that we are talking about a technology that will prevail.

So technology companies are currently in the phase of finding the practical use of this technology, which in many cases brings more than obvious benefits to its users. And at this point, it is important to distinguish between purely AI-based services, such as chatbots, image generators and others, from those in which AI is not the basis, but rather the engine of certain functions supported by it. as well as on YouTube.

As stated by Google itself on the support page of the service, YouTube is testing two new AI-based featuresboth aimed at improving the experience of using the service, specifically by making it easier to “consume” its content.

The first is, as you can see in the image above, a function that takes care of that reviews and group comments videos based on their content. This way, instead of having to read a huge list of records to find and capture the ones that deal with what we’re interested in, we can use this feature to find and read grouped ones that deal with what we’re interested in.

Another news that is more in line with what we see now is this YouTube is also testing its own chatbotwhich in this case will provide us with information (if we ask for it, of course) about the video we are watching, and will also offer us personalized suggestions of related content.

So far, These features are being tested and are only available to select YouTube Premium users in the United States.. However, both seem interesting enough to hope that sooner or later they will reach the regular users of the service.