Google Bard’s Latest Magic: “Watch” YouTube Videos Without Lifting a Finger!
Google Bard was Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT when it was released earlier this year. Over time, the PaLM 2 LLM-based chatbot has received some love from Google thanks to the countless features it has received this year.
However, Google does not stop, it continues to add new features to the chatbot. The latest is its ability to understand YouTube video content.
Bard can now browse YouTube videos and essentially “watch” them to gather information for you. This feature can potentially be used for research purposes, finding food recipes, or even summarizing long videos when you don’t have time to watch them.
We independently tested the feature and it works as advertised. We fed one of our video stories to Bard and it returned a very detailed summary of what we had talked about in the video. In fact, when we asked who anchored the video, Bard gets it right here as well.
Bard, in particular, had received the skills to understand video content as early as September, but all its abilities – to understand and respond to the context – only opened up now.
“We’re taking the first steps in Bard’s ability to understand YouTube videos. For example, if you’re looking for videos on how to make an olive oil cake, you can now also ask how many eggs the recipe in the first video calls for,” Google notes in Bard’s changelog. It added: “We’ve heard that you want deeper engagement with YouTube to videos. So we’re extending the YouTube plugin to understand video content so you can have a richer conversation about it with Bard.”
To get started with this feature, copy and paste the link to a YouTube video, along with a detailed prompt about what information you want from the video, inside Bard. And it can find this information if it exists in the video.
