The feature was demonstrated by designer Pietro Schirano, who posted a screen recording of Edge Copilot summarizing a YouTube video about the GTA VI trailer. Platforms like YouTube and Vimeo can automatically generate transcripts and subtitles if users enable the feature. Microsoft's Copilot is part of the generative AI race the company is competing in with Google and others.
Key takeaways:
- Microsoft's AI Copilot in the Edge browser has been updated with a feature that can generate text summaries of videos, but it currently only works on pre-processed videos or those with subtitles.
- The AI doesn't so much summarize videos as it summarizes the text transcripts of the videos. It can also summarize Teams video meetings and calls for customer service agents in Microsoft 365, but the audio needs to be transcribed first.
- Platforms like YouTube and Vimeo can automatically generate transcripts and subtitles if users enable the feature, and according to Microsoft's CEO of advertising and web services, Mikhail Parakhin, Copilot should work for most videos.
- Microsoft is competing in the generative AI race with companies like Google, which recently upgraded the YouTube extension for its Bard chatbot to enable it to summarize video content and surface specific information from it.