TECH - YouTube Premium Users Can Now Skip Commonly Skipped Sections With Google's AI-Powered 'Jump Ahead' Feature | Benzinga
YouTube, an online video-sharing platform owned by Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, rolled out a new feature, “Jump ahead,” for its Premium subscribers.
What Happened: Initially tested in March, the “Jump ahead” feature is now available to Premium subscribers through youtube.com/new. It is powered by artificial intelligence and allows users to skip to a video’s most commonly skipped section.
The pill-shaped “Jump ahead” button appears for a few seconds in the bottom-right corner before disappearing if the user only wants to skip ahead by 10 seconds, reported 9to5Google.
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Upon tapping, a “Jumping over ...