Comment by lowsong
19 hours ago
> YouTube gaining an “ask a question about this video” button, this is a perfect example of how to sprinkle AI on an existing product.
> Extremely slow, but the obvious incremental addition of Gemini to Docs is another example.
These are great examples of insulting and invasive introductions of LLMs into already functional workflows. These are anti-features.
The Ask button in YouTube is a game changer for the use case of "what timestamp in this hour-long video talks about topic x?".
What's the existing functional workflow for that? Downloading the captions and querying with a local LLM or a very fuzzy keyword search?
Perhaps this is a difference in terminology, but in no way do you need a LLM for fuzzy search. Semantic search, fuzzy keyword search, and text to speech have existed for years and predate the technology for an LLM. In your use-case, do you really need a chatbot to "ask the video" about this, wouldn't a "search in video" function that does the same thing be better?
I guess I’m using the product wrong if I find them useful?