- YouTube Music has been working on an AI-powered Ask Music playlist generator since last year.
- Ask Music is now learning to zero in on your specific tastes by letting you refine its output.
- The app is also bringing new playlist tools like custom art uploads to mobile.
For some of us, crafting a playlist is an intensely personal experience — meticulously curating the perfect list of songs for a given mood. And if that’s your jam, more power to you. But there are also plenty of us who just feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content out there, and will take any assistance we can get in helping to automate some of our exposure to music. If you find yourself a member of that camp, YouTube Music is getting some upgrades to its AI-powered recommendation engine that you’re going to want to pay attention to.
Last year, YouTube Music introduced its Ask Music playlists, generated with the help of artificial intelligence. Instead of finding an existing track you like and creating a radio station from that, Ask Music let you get started with more general descriptions of a vibe. We already saw Google tweak that interface to encourage experimentation with Ask Music, and now 9to5Google shares that the tool is adding support for further refinement.