Artificial intelligence (AI) is intended to help YouTube users jump to interesting sequences in videos. Too often, films with logorrhea are annoying, which not only scares off viewers, but also creates unnecessary load on YouTube’s servers. The company’s own search engine Google has been linking directly to “important sequences” in selected YouTube videos for years. Now a similar function called Jump Ahead is coming to the YouTube app for Android users in the USA.
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Jump Ahead is still an experimental feature and needs to be passed youtube.com/new to be activated. If the user then double taps – usually an instruction to fast forward by ten seconds – the Jump Ahead option may also appear. According to information from March, Jump Ahead combines data about previously observed viewer behavior with AI algorithms. The AI tries to guess where in the YouTube video the user actually wants to go.
For US Premium subscriptions only
Jump Ahead is only available to US users who are a YouTube Premium subscriber, and then only in the YouTube app for Android for certain English-language videos. Since the end of March, the data company has made the feature available to a small group of select users on a test basis, and a larger test is now beginning with those who have signed up youtube.com/new register for it.
In this way, YouTube sometimes tries out things that later become a general offer or disappear again. While Jump Ahead was available in the March test for self-uploaded videos without a premium subscription, heise online has not yet been able to activate the test function with a US account without a premium subscription.
Last year, the streaming platform introduced new AI tools for video production with Youtube Create and Dream Screen, which make the creation of videos easier. Dream Screen can generate backgrounds for shorts, the short videos on YouTube, from a text template. Dream Track is an experiment in which generative AI creates music. Over the course of this year, YouTube wants to further support its video producers with additional AI features.
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