how would you feel about a PC that can remember everything you do and I'm not
just talking about browser history or old messages I mean a PC that keeps an
eye on everything displayed on your screen every app you have open how long
you spent looking at a picture all of your credit card transactions everything
Microsoft is hoping this will make you feel empowered and not spied upon once
the newest Windows 11 update called 24 H2 drops with the feature we just talked
about dubbed recall the idea is relatively simple Windows 11 will take
snapshots of your screen every few seconds and save them to dis using AI
these snapshots will become easily searchable using natural language so if
you need to ask it a question like show me every message where I discussed
Canadian maple syrup Futures recall can locate those for you even if you
completely forgot when the messages were sent or even what program you were using
happens to me all the time it's pretty easy to see how this would be extremely
useful for quickly finding an important piece of information but it's also
obvious that Windows has to collect lots of information for the feature to work
properly recall uses a minimum of 25 GB
of space if you have a rather small 256 gigs SSD and the default amount that's
allocated increases with larger dis sizes and of course Microsoft is aware
that this sounds like a privacy nightmare according to them all of the
data used by recall never leaves your device and is processed by the neural
Processing Unit or NP u in your PC so the data doesn't need to be sent to the
cloud of course this still reinforces the importance of making sure your
machine is secure as recall won't do things like hide account numbers or
passwords Microsoft says that recall data is going to be secured the same way
as other data on your PC but seeing as you're probably not used to thinking of
any random ephemeral thing that just happens to be on your screens becoming
part of a semi-permanent record we're interested to see if Microsoft will beef
up security around recall as time goes on in the meantime it is possible to
exclude certain programs and web browsers from recall if you'd like thank
goodness for that but here's the thing there's a very good chance you won't be
able to even get recall on your home PC anyway we'll tell you why right after we
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blaze.com tequ recall is intended to be a feature
on PCS that Microsoft is labeling with
co-pilot plus branding not to be confused with just co-pilot the Windows
AI assistant that has already been out for a while co-pilot plus PCS must have
16 gigs of RAM and 256 gigs of storage
but also importantly have to have an npu
rated for at least 40 trillion operations per second right now there
aren't any current consumer grade x86 CPUs out there that include an npu this
powerful by comparison current Intel and AMD products are capable of less than
half of the number of operations this means the first product certified for
co-pilot plus will instead be laptops that contain Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite
and X+ chips which are arm-based and will serve as something of a competitor
to the M series chips found in Apple devices although there has already been
one tinkerer who has gotten at recall working on Lower spec systems that don't
have an npu most folks will either need to buy one of these new laptops which
will be out later this month or wait until late 2024 when the 24 H2 update
drops for x86 PCS and when we're expecting to see CPUs from Intel and AMD
that feature compatible npus are you looking forward to having a search
feature this powerful or does it seem too creepy for you to be interested let
us know down in the comments and thanks for watching be sure to check out our
other video on npus if you want to find out more about how they work