Google has began rolling out a brand new function for its synthetic intelligence (AI) chatbot Gemini. Customers will now see an choice to play songs on YouTube Music by immediately requesting the AI assistant. That is being accomplished by way of a brand new YouTube Music extension for Gemini that integrates the app inside the platform. The tech large showcased the extension briefly in the course of the I/O occasion final week, however the function has begun rolling out now. To make use of this function on their smartphone, customers will want each the Gemini app and the YouTube Music app.
What’s Gemini’s YouTube Music Extension?
Earlier than customers can attempt it out, they should activate the extension. There are two methods to do it. To activate the extension on the net shopper of Gemini, customers can open the web site and go to Settings > Extensions, and scroll down to seek out the YouTube Music extension. As soon as it has been toggled on, the function will work on the smartphone given the identical account is utilized in each locations.
YouTube Music extension in Gemini
One other solution to flip it on is immediately on the smartphone. Within the Gemini app, customers can ask the chatbot to play music and an automated pop-up will seem asking to activate the extension. Turning it on will enable Gemini to play songs from the YouTube Music app.
Gemini’s YouTube Music Extension Options Defined
With this extension, Gemini can course of verbal or typed prompts on taking part in songs from a selected style, artist, album and extra. It might probably additionally take extra complicated prompts comparable to “play music that I like”. To fulfil this request, the AI will test the consumer’s YouTube Music suggestions and play historical past to counsel related songs. Google has shared a protracted checklist of duties Gemini will be capable to carry out after this integration.
At launch, the Gemini AI assistant was criticised for being bare-bones and never having sufficient options to even match the present Google Assistant. On the time, it couldn’t set alarms, and reminders, or full a job by way of a third-party app. At present, the AI chatbot has extensions for Google Flights, Google Maps, Google Lodges, Google Workspace, YouTube, and YouTube Music. Nonetheless, it nonetheless doesn’t have an integration for both WhatsApp or Spotify, which many customers have requested.
