“A segment from Black Mirror. I will certainly remove this ‘feature’,” Elon Musk stated in reference to Microsoft’s recent Recall feature.
“Recall” is a new feature that Microsoft is releasing for certain Windows 11 PCs. It employs artificial intelligence to record every action the user does, including what’s happening on the screen.
Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, announced the new AI-powered feature in a corporate blog post on May 20. The functionality will be accessible on Microsoft’s new range of “Copilot+ PCs.”
A computer would have “photographic memory,” as Medhi put it, thanks to its function. This feature takes use of AI to capture screenshots of user interactions at regular intervals, documenting their current computer activities.
A common and annoying issue that we face on a daily basis, as Mehdi pointed out, is trying to locate anything that we have seen on our computers previously.
Medhi elaborated, saying, “Copilot+ PCs arrange information as we do – based on correlations and associations unique to each of our particular experiences.”
This aids your memory, allowing you to recall previously forgotten details and use them naturally to locate what you need.
In the demo video, Microsoft demonstrated how Recall works by showing a visual timeline that users can browse through to retrieve material from any app, website, or document they have seen before.
Also, it can identify things in previous material using snapshots for object recognition, which allows it to receive action suggestions based on those objects. To manage their privacy, users may remove certain images, choose different time periods, pause the recording, or exclude specific applications or websites from indexing.
The feature is evocative of the science fiction anthology show Black Mirror, which is British. One of the plot points of the third and last episode of the first season, “The Entire History of You,” was the characters’ ability to recall and display past memories on a screen.
Elon Musk, a billionaire entrepreneur, made a similar observation on May 21 on his social networking site X. “A segment from Black Mirror. Without a doubt, I will disable this “feature.”
On the other hand, 80 Level, a worldwide digital content publishing network, reports that some users are worried that Recall’s generative AI would exploit their personal data without their knowledge or agreement to train its AI models.
Cointelegraph said on May 17 that if Microsoft does not answer to a request for information on Bing and related generative AI services, the company might face a punishment of up to one percent of its yearly sales in the EU.
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