Microsoft is adding more features to Recall despite its ongoing privacy issues
This new feature is called “Screenray,” and it allows people to feed Copilot an image of their desktop and analyze parts of it for better accessibility.
This new feature is called “Screenray,” and it allows people to feed Copilot an image of their desktop and analyze parts of it for better accessibility.
SMEs seeking to amplify employee productivity must start here with a little light anthropology – or even a full organization analysis – that explores their own habits.
All three Qualcomm rivals (Intel, AMD, Nvidia) want you to know that other existing AI features already run on their chips, and hundreds more are coming from independent software companies.
It’s not unheard of for Microsoft to stop distributing a beta build of Windows after releasing it, but the Release Preview channel is typically the last stop for a Windows update before a wider release.
The thing is, Copilot is not the only thing that’s coming with Copilot+ PCs, and I feel it’d be easy to assume that all a Copilot+ PC does is have an enhanced assistant on it.
Microsoft has struggled with security and privacy in its products. CEO Satya Nadella pledged to make security the most important thing at the company…To launch Recall with exploitable security holes flies in the face of that directive.
“One important reason to upgrade to an AI PC is to create a small language model that AI will constantly use for inferencing your content.”
Microsoft is requiring laptop makers that ship devices with Windows 11 and specific hardware to include the new Copilot key on their keyboards.
A developer on Twitter has taken the discussion a step further by revealing that one of the flagship new features, Recall, doesn’t require the presence of a powerful NPU after all.
These Copilot agents will be triggered by certain events and work with a business’s own data.
Its NPU is capable of performing over 40 tera operations per second (TOPS) — a far cry from the 10 NPU TOPS offered with the Meteor Lake chips included in a range of AI PCs that are already available, and enough to qualify as a ‘Copilot+’ PC.
The biggest new requirement, and the blocker for virtually every Windows PC in use today, will be for an integrated neural processing unit, or NPU. Microsoft requires an NPU with performance rated at 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS).
The scope of Recall, which Microsoft has internally called AI Explorer, is incredibly vast — it includes logging things you do in apps, tracking communications in live meetings, remembering all websites you’ve visited for research, and more.
“Recall uses Copilot+ PC advanced processing capabilities to take images of your active screen every few seconds,” Microsoft says on its website.
One of the flagship features it’ll power is “Recall,” which is supposed to use AI to create a searchable “photographic memory” of everything you’ve done and seen on your PC.