The brand new system goals to supply extra context about key classes and matters, to assist individuals seeking to higher perceive such through sub-descriptions, diagrams, and extra.

As defined by YouTube:

“We’re testing a brand new, computerized option to establish key ideas lined in tutorial studying movies and floor extra details about these ideas within the type of photos and quick textual content snippets in real-time, immediately on the video’s watch web page. For now, that is being examined on a small set of English-language movies associated to instructional matters taught in faculties (throughout topics reminiscent of biology, physics and chemistry). The experiment will happen on cellular solely, for a restricted variety of individuals watching YouTube.”

It’s considerably much like one other experiment that Google is at the moment working in Search, which makes use of AI to spotlight particular phrases inside an outline, and gives extra context in-stream for these phrases.

The thought is that by offering these supplementary learnings inside the descriptions themselves, that can save individuals having to open a brand new window or app, or click on away from the principle content material, so as to make sure that they absolutely perceive the outline as introduced.

Which may very well be useful, and will prevent time as you utilize YouTube for analysis functions.

The take a look at is in restricted beta proper now, and can solely present up on instructional movies, so chances are you’ll not see it within the wild. However it’s prone to develop into a extra frequent ingredient of instructional content material within the app, including extra parts to the YouTube studying expertise.

Creators are in a position to choose out of the brand new descriptions in the event that they select.