Microsoft's Copilot AI Needs To Play To Release YouTube Video

Not all YouTube videos can be summarized by AI Copilot. (Photo: Doc. Microsoft)

JAKARTA - Microsoft launched several new features on Copilot, Artificial Intelligence service (AI) in early December. One of the features highlighted is YouTube's summary capabilities.

With this feature, Microsoft Edge users who are watching videos on YouTube's website can ask Copilot to summarize the video. However, this feature cannot be used for all types of videos.

Found for the first time by MSPOWEUser, Microsoft CEO of Advertising and Web Service Mikhail Parakhin said that the YouTube summary on Copilot has limitations. This feature can only be used when the video has subtitles.

"In order to function, we need to pre-process videos. If the video has subtitles, we can always fall back on the subtitles. If we haven't processed it first, then the video won't work," Michail wrote on platform X.

This means that this summary feature does not summarize the video, but rather summarizes the text or transcript of the video. The same process also occurs in the feature of summarizing Teams video meetings and calls in Microsoft 365.

Microsoft claims that Copilot is able to summarize the audio directly, but in fact audio needs to be described first before it's summarized. This also happens in Microsoft Stream.

Although the user's perspective has been wrong about this feature, at least Copilot can really be used. Given that the majority of videos on YouTube have subtitles in it, the summary feature will work for most videos.