YouTube, new leader of US media industry, bets on AI as key for creating content
News Source : CNA
News Summary
- YouTube CEO Neal Mohan and other presenters dismissed the idea, reiterating that the rapid expansion of AI capabilities would not replace the jobs of content creators.
- The company tripled the number of new features it introduced this year compared to last year's event.
- Most of the more than 30 new tools that it revealed incorporated AI to either revamp the production process or create new content.
- The tools have features to automatically embed relevant shopping links into videos or to almost instantaneously edit a bunch of clips into the first cut of a video.
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