YouTube Paid Users Get This AI-Powered Feature: Here's What It Does

YouTube is testing its AI-powered ‘Jump Ahead’ feature. The company has been testing the feature since March and is now available for all premium subscribers, as per 9to5Google. This new feature allows the users to skip to the best part of the video which most viewers typically skip ahead to. The feature predicts the best points of the video by combining the user’s data and AI technology.

To use this new feature, the premium subscribers after double-tapping to skip forward, will see a new pill-shaped ‘Jump Ahead’ tab on the right bottom of your screen which will appear for a few seconds before disappearing if the users just want to go ahead by 10 seconds, the report adds.

After tapping on the button, the users will see a “Jumping Over Commonly Skipped Section” written on the display. Then by using several user’s data and with the help of AI, the feature will help the user to watch the best part of the video.

As of now, the feature is only available for Android app users in the US and is limited to English-language videos only. YouTube premium users can try out this experimental feature until June 1. After the deadline, the platform might formally launch it as a permanent feature for all the premium users, or could also extend the experiment further.

The ‘Jump-Ahead’ feature is a better version of the previously launched double-tap skip feature. But instead of skipping only a few seconds ahead, this new experimental feature directly skips to the most loved part of the video.

A few weeks ago, the platform tested the new feature calling it “a very small experiment” that some users automatically enrolled in. However, this feature is now more widely available through the youtube.com/new experiments page, reported 9to5Google.

Users can try this feature both on the mobile app and the desktop. To enroll this feature on the mobile application, the users need to go to settings and then scroll down to the ‘Try Experimental Features’ section and click on it. Users will see an option to activate these features. Remember that these features are available only for a short time.

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