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

As defined by YouTube:

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

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

The concept is that by offering these supplementary learnings throughout the descriptions themselves, that can save folks having to open a brand new window or app, or click on away from the principle content material, with the intention to make sure that they totally 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 academic movies, so you could not see it within the wild. But it surely’s prone to change into a extra frequent factor of academic content material within the app, including extra components to the YouTube studying expertise.

Creators are capable of choose out of the brand new descriptions in the event that they select.