{"id":183516,"date":"2025-09-26T18:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183516\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:38:08","slug":"youtubes-new-ai-experiment-adds-ai-hosts-to-your-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183516\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube\u2019s new AI experiment adds AI hosts to your music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">YouTube is adding AI hosts to radio and mixes in the YouTube Music app as part of a new test available through its new Labs program. The hosts are designed to \u201cdeepen your listening experience by sharing relevant stories, fan trivia, and fun commentary about your favorite music,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/news-and-events\/introducing-youtube-labs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube says<\/a> in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you want to see if you\u2019re eligible to join YouTube Labs, which is dedicated to AI-focused experiments on the platform, to potentially try the feature out, check <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube\u2019s website<\/a>; through the program, \u201ca limited number of US-based participants can test early prototypes and experiments,\u201d according the blog post. Even though I joined YouTube Labs, I don\u2019t seem to have access to the experiment myself. I\u2019ve been playing YouTube Music off my phone for a little while writing this article, and I haven\u2019t heard the hosts just yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/18\/24273411\/google-notebooklm-ai-audio-overview-customize\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">steadily<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/12\/13\/24318099\/google-notebooklm-audio-overviews-talk-plus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expanding<\/a> the capabilities of the AI hosts with NotebookLM to help users review and study different topics, so trying out a similar idea to YouTube Music makes some sense. The new YouTube Labs program also follows Google\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.google\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">broader Labs program<\/a> for its AI experiments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Today, YouTube also announced that some of its Premium-only features have <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/thread\/376145315?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expanded to more platforms<\/a>. For example, the jump ahead feature, which uses AI to skip to the most interesting part of a video, is now \u201cfully available\u201d on YouTube for TV and game consoles, YouTube says. (The feature started showing up for some TV users <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/715730\/youtube-jump-ahead-premium-feature-tv-rollout\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earlier this year<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTube is adding AI hosts to radio and mixes in the YouTube Music app as part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,88,216,3,7382,172,74,9280],"class_list":{"0":"post-183516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-streaming","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}