I had a question about the possibility of somehow integrating some of the new AI capabilities into the Mirai Library. One of my main challenges in working with the library is finding that one piece of the one video that I saw that talked about a specific thing. I end up having to go through multiple videos kind of skipping around, trying to refresh my memory of where it was I remember watching the clip I’m looking for. The search function and filters for the library are certainly helpful, but they don’t always get me where I need to go. Often times I end up, skipping past the point I’m looking for or never find it.
I feel like there’s some possibility to use an AI type agent to scrape the text narration from each video and at least create the ability to answer questions quicker or help point me to the right video and what app approximate time to look for.
If I had to guess this is not a new idea for you guys or you’ve already looked into it or currently working on it?
probably easier and faster to use an AI plugin app on your side. For what it is worth, Ryan has a ton of proprietary content that I wouldn’t want AI’s scraping and turning into social slop if I were in his shoes.
If Mirai would run all the videos through voice recognition software and use the text as a searchable content source it can be used as an index and take you to the right spot on the correct video. Many of the most significant light bulb going off moments watching Ryan have been unrelated to the subject of the videos I am watching. BTW I have had books scanned computer translated to English and made into searchable PDFs for my own use.
JP chiming in here for Mirai. We are indeed working on a total overhaul of the Mirai Live library that has been an ongoing project for the past few years. We are updating the tagging system for every video with a whole new redesign to make finding videos much easier. In addition, our video hosting partner Vimeo has been releasing a bunch of new capabilities for adding chapter markers and interactive options for each video that we will begin testing on the Behind the Branch videos soon.
We are currently getting the new design up on our staging servers so we can begin testing and hope to have an update for everyone soon.
While we agree that AI integration could really expand the capabilities of Mirai there is a big question mark on where that data goes once it is released to AI. We will continue to explore this as AI evolves and let you know if we have updates.
If Mirai would put all of the transcripts into NotebookLM, label the notebook ‘Ask Mirai’, the notebook’s chat feature would not only draw from all of the videos with source attribution, but would also triangulate across them and build new summaries. This could be a nice flywheel to drive people deeper into and across videos they may not even know exist.
You could manage access to it based on emails you have active and signed up for Mirai live but this might be a pain. Just do it with the YouTube video transcripts and make the notebook public!