Prime Video will let you summon AI to recap what you’re watching

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Prime Video will let you summon AI to recap what you’re watching

Could be a handy way to catch back up on a show.

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Prime Video will let you summon AI to recap what you’re watching​

The new X-Ray Recaps feature will be able to summarize TV seasons, episodes, and parts of episodes.​

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Nov 4, 2024, 2:07 PM EST

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Amazon’s Prime Video is getting a new generative AI-powered feature to help catch you up on a show. The new tool, called X-Ray Recaps, can create text summaries of “of full seasons of TV shows, single episodes, and even pieces of episodes,” the company says in a blog post.

X-Ray Recaps will be accessible from the detail page of a show or in X-Ray while you’re watching something. The tool “analyzes various video segments, combined with subtitles or dialogue, to generate detailed descriptions of key events, places, times, and conversations,” Amazon says. Amazon has also applied “guardrails” to help the feature avoid sharing spoilers and to keep summaries concise.

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X-Ray Recaps, which is are beta, are coming to Fire TV devices starting today, with support for “additional devices” available by the end of this year, Amazon says. The feature, at launch, will work with all Amazon MGM Studios Original series.

 

[num123]

What is the point of watching anything if you can not retain that information? If you need someone or something to recap what you just watched then you may need to seek medical help.

 

[Nostalgic]

I would love to see this AI feature give a recap of GUMMO.

 

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What is the point of watching anything if you can not retain that information? If you need someone or something to recap what you just watched then you may need to seek medical help.

i didn't watch the last two seasons of peaky blinders, so something like this would come in handy to catch up. it also helps when there are years between production of a new season.

 

[num123]

i didn't watch the last two seasons of peaky blinders, so something like this would come in handy to catch up. it also helps when there are years between production of a new season.

Why would you not just watch the seasons you did not see? Using this to catch up would be pointless because they state it would be designed to not give spoilers, so you still would need to find a way to get them without it.

I can understand not remembering every single little detail with every episode but not remembering what happened overall is crazy.

 

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Why would you not just watch the seasons you did not see? Using this to catch up would be pointless because they state it would be designed to not give spoilers, so you still would need to find a way to get them without it.

I can understand not remembering every single little detail with every episode but not remembering what happened is crazy.

you misunderstand, since it's been so long since I watched the show, i'd want a recap on the prior seasons i did watch so i can watch the later seasons with fewer gaps in my memory of the show..

 

[Nero Christ]

Whole world's gone completely stupid

 

[Nostalgic]

Whole world's gone completely stupid

November 5th, 2024 showed us that.