YouTube is experimenting with yet another interesting feature
on its app, powered by AI. A new quiz option has been created to test users’
knowledge on various topics of their interest that they have explored on
YouTube via educational videos. The functionality is also aimed at helping YouTube
determine how well a video on its platform covers a given subject.
The quizzes, generated by AI, will appear on users’ YouTube Home feed, asking them questions relevant to the subject covered in a video that they recently watched. ”If you choose to take a quiz, a link to the recently watched video will appear under it so you can easily navigate back to learn more about the topic at hand,” adds YouTube.
The feature could be a valuable source for people to develop
their understanding about various educational topics in a fun and engaging way.
YouTube quizzes will not really feel like classroom quizzes, hopefully, after
all.
Whether or not AI generated quizzes will become a successful
engagement feature on YouTube is dependent on how many people actually feel
interested in responding to these quizzes, and if they gain sufficiently useful
knowledge from them.
The experiment is global, and limited to a select number of users on iOS and Android, as well as select educational and EN-language videos, according to YouTube.
