New Windows AI feature takes screenshots “every few seconds”
By ForGeeks The preview stage of Recall records almost everything you do on your computer so you can find what you’ve seen and lost later. How would you feel about installing a program that takes screen shots «every few seconds» and archives them for months? That’s the gist of Recall, a new Windows feature announced this week.
So that’s what Recall is all about.
Recall is part of Microsoft’s Copilot+ suite of artificial intelligence tools for Snapdragon X Series laptops. It continuously takes snapshots of your desktop to create a viewable and searchable record of (almost) everything you’ve done on your PC, the size of which is limited only by the disk space allocated for this feature.
Recall is the only way to create a viewable and searchable record of (almost) everything you’ve done on your PC.
If everything works as intended (and it often doesn’t work that way with AI), once it finds a snapshot that contains something relevant, Recall will analyze the image and find the website or file you were browsing at the time it was taken.
When it finds a snapshot that contains something relevant, Recall will analyze the image and find the website or file you were browsing at the time it was taken.
I’m sure most of us were thinking something like «damn, what was that funny post I saw yesterday? » and wishing we could ask the computer to find it for us, but I have a hard time imagining letting Windows take a picture of everything I do. Microsoft clearly foresaw that the feature would cause alarm, and assures potential users that it’s not a ploy to get them to agree to total surveillance.
Microsoft clearly foresaw that the feature would cause alarm, and assures potential users that it’s not a ploy to get them to agree to total surveillance.
