Amazon will now use AI to recap what you are watching

Have you ever ever began a present, stopped mid-season after which struggled to get again into it as a result of you haven’t any thought precisely the place you stopped watching or what was happening? Amazon simply may need you coated. The corporate simply launched a new tool for Prime Video that makes use of AI to generate customized recaps.

X-Ray Recaps makes use of generative AI to create “transient, easy-to-digest summaries” of whole TV seasons, single episodes and even parts of episodes. All of that is customized, so the recap will go as much as the “actual minute of the place you might be watching.” The corporate guarantees “quick textual snippets of key cliffhangers, character-driven plot factors” and different particulars.

Adam Grey, vp of product at Prime Video, says that this device will assist prospects “shortly bounce again into what they had been watching or rediscover why they fell in love with a sequence within the first place.” It’s powered by Amazon Bedrock, the corporate’s proprietary AWS service for constructing and scaling AI functions. For these worrying about spoilers, the AI has been skilled to keep away from them in any respect prices.

That is an extension of the pre-existing X-Ray feature, which gives trivia and solid data through the stream. I like this device and am continually flabbergasted that different streamers haven’t adopted one thing prefer it.

X-Ray Recaps launches in the present day for Fireplace TV prospects, although in a beta format. Further units will obtain assist by the top of the 12 months. Proper now, it solely works with content material made by Amazon MGM Studios, like Add, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Wheel of Time and The Boys.