Do you often use Bard? Google’s artificial intelligence is one of the great rivals of the popular ChatGPT, as well as Microsoft Copilot, and allows users to have conversations about practically anything and generate all kinds of texts just by specifying what you want. But, if it was already a very versatile AI, now it will be even more so.
Google has updated Bard so you can have deeper and more meaningful conversations with the chatbot when asking about YouTube videos. In their latest experimental update log, the company announced an expansion of Bard’s YouTube extension capabilities, enabling the generative AI to “understand some video content.”
For instance, Google mentioned that you’ll be able to ask Bard how many eggs were used in a video for an olive oil cake recipe. As Android Authority suggested, you might also inquire about specific tools’ names in DIY videos. Regarding food reviews, Bard might inform you about the locations of mentioned restaurants in the videos or the origin of a specific cuisine.
Bard first gained the ability to extract data from YouTube in September through an update that integrated it with other Google products, including Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, and Lens. However, it couldn’t analyze the content of a video or respond to detailed questions about it. Google stated that they released this update because “they heard that you want deeper engagement with YouTube videos.”
They also mentioned that they’ve just taken the “first steps in Bard’s ability to understand YouTube videos,” indicating that the technology might better analyze videos on the platform in the future. To chat with Bard about YouTube videos, you’ll need to activate the YouTube extension in the chatbot’s web portal.
