YouTube Foresees AI as Its Next Major Jolt of Innovation with a Dash of Humor

“YouTube Thinks AI Is Its Next Big Bang”

“More than a decade ago, Google announced that it was going to start using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help power its godlike search engine. The machines trained on billions of queries typed by humans to learn how to deliver the right answer, at the right time, in the right language. Now, YouTube is hoping to do a similar thing, but with videos.”

Delightful! It seems YouTube is finally catching up to adopting AI. Just took them a small matter of, say, a decade? But let’s not quibble over timelines. YouTube is all geared now to let artificial intelligence take the driver’s seat. But not just any AI. YouTube swaggers with the promise of an AI that is as adept at comprehending video content as Google’s search engine is at understanding human queries. A bold claim indeed!

The deal here is simple. Machines, feed on billions of video snippets, in all languages, at all times. Their ‘food’ doesn’t end with the videos but will continue to a virtually unlimited supply of queries enlisted by the users circling the globe. These machines are not designed to just deliver what is asked for, but are being trained (rather elaborately) to connect the dots between content and viewer needs. Never thought machines could be so empathetic, did you?

The timing of YouTube’s AI announcement serves the purpose brilliantly, doesn’t it? This conscientious move comes right when social media giants are under scrutiny to reduce harmful and fake content. They want machines to do the hunting in place of humans, who are, let’s be honest, noticeably less perfect. Goodbye cat video distractions, hello highly-efficient AI moderation!

No one can deny that embracing AI is a massive step for YouTube, but chalking it up as the next ‘Big Bang’? That’s YouTube being humble, isn’t it? As if having an AI that can flawlessly decipher and moderate billions of videos wasn’t already ground-breaking enough! Yet, here YouTube prances, nonchalantly bestowing upon itself the status of a celestial event. No pressure there, machines!

Optimism aside, lengthening shadows of concern are bound to cloak this advent. As machines replace human moderators, questions about job security and ethics lurk in the corner. It’s like reliving the Industrial Revolution, only with spiffy 21st-century technology this time. All said, one must commend YouTube for diving headfirst into this pandora’s box.

So, dear readers, sit back and get ready to witness a spectacle of man-made intelligence. Will the machines surpass our expectations, or will this be another ambitious tech bust? Either way, it’s bound to be quite the show. And remember, the popcorn’s on you!

Read the original article here: https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-thinks-ai-is-its-next-big-bang/