How to Use Gemini AI to Summarize YouTube Videos

The big AI companies are continually promising that their tech will save us time and boost our productivity—albeit with big questions about copyright abuse, illegal content, and skyrocketing energy use hanging rather inconveniently around in the background. But if you’re looking to put more time back into your busy schedule, AI can be a useful tool, and maybe in some ways you haven’t even thought about.

One of those might be summarizing YouTube videos. AI has already shown it can be a fairly reliable summarizer (although not always), and if you just need to extract a few salient points from a series of videos that are 15 or 30 minutes long, the time saved can quickly add up.

Google Gemini has a new AI model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, which can plug into Google apps including Google Search, Google Maps ...