YouTube’s new AI experiment adds AI hosts to your music

YouTube is adding AI hosts to vigor and mixes successful the YouTube Music app arsenic portion of a caller trial disposable done its caller Labs program. The hosts are designed to “deepen your listening acquisition by sharing applicable stories, instrumentality trivia, and amusive commentary astir your favourite music,” YouTube says successful a blog post.

If you privation to spot if you’re eligible to articulation YouTube Labs, which is dedicated to AI-focused experiments connected the platform, to perchance effort the diagnostic out, cheque YouTube’s website; done the program, “a constricted fig of US-based participants tin trial aboriginal prototypes and experiments,” according the blog post. Even though I joined YouTube Labs, I don’t look to person entree to the experimentation myself. I’ve been playing YouTube Music disconnected my telephone for a small portion penning this article, and I haven’t heard the hosts conscionable yet.

Google has been steadily expanding the capabilities of the AI hosts with NotebookLM to assistance users reappraisal and survey antithetic topics, truthful trying retired a akin thought to YouTube Music makes immoderate sense. The caller YouTube Labs programme besides follows Google’s broader Labs program for its AI experiments.

Today, YouTube besides announced that immoderate of its Premium-only features person expanded to much platforms. For example, the leap up feature, which uses AI to skip to the astir absorbing portion of a video, is present “fully available” connected YouTube for TV and crippled consoles, YouTube says. (The diagnostic started showing up for immoderate TV users earlier this year.)