There’s a company founded by a friend of mine called MediaDistillery, who are doing awesome stuff in this area. Real-time searchable massive video archives, with contextual understanding (e.g. “a WW2 fragment with a Jewish mother holding her baby”). Super useful for so many purposes.

And then there’s YouTube where you can’t even search subtitles. It makes me shake my head. Google seems to be at the forefront of AI, but doesn’t seem to be able to turn all that expertise into relevant products. Maybe the recent disruptions will shake them awake?