Unlock the Answers to Your YouTube Questions with Google Bard!

Google Bard, a competitor of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has recently gained new capabilities following the introduction of voice features to OpenAI’s mobile apps. In a similar vein, Google Bard can now comprehend and analyze YouTube videos, providing users with answers to their inquiries. This fresh addition, known as Bard Extensions, was launched earlier this year and allows Bard to collaborate with various Google products, enabling it to respond to questions based on app-specific knowledge bases. The feature has been released and users can now test it out.

The new features were announced in a blog post by Bard, which said: “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 Bard can now watch YouTube videos

This feature has some limitations. Bard understands YouTube videos to some extent. It can process the audio and video content of the video and extract the main points and ideas. It can also understand the overall tone and feel of the video. However, it struggles to understand videos with complex or nuanced language, or videos that rely heavily on visual cues. Additionally, Bard will not respond to questions about videos that contain “potentially dangerous content.”

So what could be the use cases for this feature? Bard’s feature can be very useful in situations where you need to analyze a long video but don’t have time to watch it in its entirety. You can simply paste a URL and ask it to summarize the video. You can also ask contextual questions or questions about a specific part of the video. However, note that it may not be able to answer such questions if the video does not have a subtitle file that it can read.

YouTube is also testing a similar feature for its Premium users, where they can ask an AI-powered chatbot questions about videos or ask for recommendations and tell you more about a topic. Interestingly, unlike YouTube, Bard’s feature is available to everyone.