--- title: I used AI to watch an hour-long lecture | daily.dev description: Gemini 1.5 Pro, a large language model, demonstrates its ability to understand and reason about videos. The post discusses the needle-in-a-haystack test, a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-used-ai-to-watch-an-hour-long-lecture-hfui1ccos twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I used AI to watch an hour-long lecture | daily.dev og:description: Gemini 1.5 Pro, a large language model, demonstrates its ability to understand and reason about videos. The post discusses the needle-in-a-haystack test, a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-used-ai-to-watch-an-hour-long-lecture-hfui1ccos og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hFUi1CCOS.png og:image:alt: I used AI to watch an hour-long lecture og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I used AI to watch an hour-long lecture **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 2 min read · 31 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Gemini 1.5 Pro, a large language model, demonstrates its ability to understand and reason about videos. The post discusses the needle-in-a-haystack test, a video demonstration, and the potential applications of Gemini. The author then shares their experience using Gemini to analyze a 59:59 minute video lecture, testing it on various questions. The post concludes with reflections on Gemini's summarization capabilities and provides useful links for further reading. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@stephen68** · 3 upvotes > finally you don't need to spend a day to read dumb videos **@cornelismus** · 1 upvotes > So it's still hallucinate when the questions are not specific enough, so does this all come down to prompt engineering? **@mohammadamini** · 0 upvotes > There has been AI's for some time now that summarize videos for you specially on YouTube. But I don't find them as useful. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#google-ai-studio](https://daily.dev/tags/google-ai-studio) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/i-used-ai-to-watch-an-hour-long-lecture-hfui1ccos) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"I used AI to watch an hour-long lecture","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-used-ai-to-watch-an-hour-long-lecture-hfui1ccos","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-used-ai-to-watch-an-hour-long-lecture-hfui1ccos"},"datePublished":"2024-04-30T19:00:23.254Z","dateModified":"2026-05-28T02:12:42.817Z","description":"Gemini 1.5 Pro, a large language model, demonstrates its ability to understand and reason about videos. 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