Amazon will now use AI to recap what you’re 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 concept precisely the place you stopped watching or what was happening? Amazon simply may need you lined. 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 complete TV seasons, single episodes and even parts of episodes. All of that is customized, so the recap will go as much as the “precise 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 instrument will assist prospects “shortly leap 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 educated to keep away from them in any respect prices.

That is an extension of the pre-existing X-Ray feature, which affords trivia and forged data in the course of the stream. I really like this instrument and am consistently flabbergasted that different streamers haven’t adopted one thing prefer it.

X-Ray Recaps launches at this time for Hearth TV prospects, although in a beta format. Extra units will obtain help by the tip of the yr. 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.