Amazon is using artificial intelligence for its latest “X-Ray” feature. If you are distracted by TikTok while watching a TV show on Prime Video, you can easily look back at the shows you missed.
Dubbed “X-Ray Recaps,” this content is personalized to your viewing habits and provides a summary up to the point of your last viewing. This will take the form of “short text snippets of important cliffhangers” and character-driven plots.
According to Amazon, the summary is generated regardless of where you are watching or when you stop watching. This includes whether you took a coffee break a few minutes later or fell asleep five minutes after the end.
Amazon promises that the summaries are spoiler-free, so there is no need to worry about spoilers (even for the best editions).
According to Amazon, X-Ray Recaps are designed to help people catch up if they missed an important point in a show or return to a show after a long blank.
It is designed as a way to see what happened without risking spoiling it with an online synopsis or rewinding to catch a glimpse of some of the action.
Adam Gray, vice president of product for Prime Video, explained that the recap is “context aware” for the time and location of the video.
He said this allows Prime Video to “deliver a summary of a memorable moment or key plot point, so customers can go right back to what they were watching or rediscover why they liked the series in the first place.”
Using custom Amazon AI models trained on video segments, subtitles, and dialogue from the Prime Video library, the system can create descriptions of key events, places, times, and even conversations. Guardrails are then applied to ensure that they are spoiler-free and easy to read at a distance.
The X-Ray recap is available to anyone with a Prime Video account; simply go to the Prime Video show details page or open the X-Ray Experience during playback.
You can choose from a variety of recap types, including a summary of the current episode, previous seasons, or previous seasons if you last watched a delayed release.
For now, it is only available in beta to Fire TV customers in the US, but Amazon says it will be available on a wider range of devices by the end of the year. Details of international release plans are not available.
For now, the best shows to try this out include: “Daisy Jones and the Six Friends,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “Wheel of Time,” and “The Boys.”
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