Jaeden Schaefer

The other exciting update from Google is that they are expanding where their AI shows up.

So on the consumer side, YouTube is bringing the latest Gemini AI assistant to smart TVs.

They're bringing it to their gaming consoles and they're bringing it to their streaming devices.

So I think previously this was like Gemini was basically just kind of on the mobile and on web interface.

And it was an experimental feature that they've now just added, which is basically letting viewers ask questions about what they're watching directly from their TV, which is honestly, it's kind of cool.

Obviously, you could see some of these features on maybe YouTube on your phone or on your computer.

But now you're going to actually start seeing these from your game console or from your TV or from your streaming device.

So what's cool is users essentially can just click to ask.

There's like an ask button next to the assistant.

If they're watching something, they can ask a question.

I mean, I would imagine this is useful for a TV show.

Maybe you missed a couple episodes and you want to get the backlog.

Maybe you fell asleep for 10 minutes and don't want to rewind.

Or maybe you really just don't get it because sometimes I feel like when I'm watching a show with my wife, she understands at least 20% more about what's going on than I do.

And maybe that's just a me problem, but I do think it would be useful rather than having to like whisper to her like, wait, what did they say about that?

And then,

getting shushed because she's trying to listen to what they're currently saying, it'd be nice to maybe just be able to ask on the side.

I don't know.

Maybe this use case is only useful for me.

In any case, you basically can use your remote's microphone, ask questions more so than a TV show.