YouTube’s new AI experiment adds AI hosts to your music

YouTube is experimenting with adding AI hosts to its music platform, YouTube Music, as part of a new test available through its YouTube Labs program. These AI hosts are designed to enhance the listening experience by providing relevant stories, fan trivia, and commentary about the user's favorite music. The feature is currently only available to a limited number of US-based participants who have joined the YouTube Labs program, which focuses on AI-related experiments on the platform. The article notes that the writer, despite being part of the program, has not yet had access to the AI host feature. Google has been expanding the capabilities of its AI technology, as seen in its NotebookLM project, which helps users review and study different topics. The introduction of AI hosts to YouTube Music is a logical extension of this work. Additionally, the article mentions that YouTube has expanded some of its Premium-only features, such as the jump ahead feature, which uses AI to skip to the most interesting parts of a video, to more platforms, including YouTube for TV and game consoles.