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How would you feel about a PC that can remember

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everything you do? And I'm not just talking about browser history

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or old messages. I mean a PC that keeps an eye on everything

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displayed on your screen, every app you have open, how long you spent looking at a picture,

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all of your credit card transactions, everything.

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Microsoft is hoping this will make you feel empowered

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and not spied upon once the newest Windows 11 update

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called 24H2 drops with the feature we just talked about, dubbed Recall.

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The idea is relatively simple. Windows 11 will take snapshots of your screen

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every few seconds and save them to disk. Using AI, these snapshots will become

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easily searchable using natural language. So if you need to ask it a question like,

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show me every message where I discussed Canadian maple syrup futures, Recall can locate those for you

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even if you completely forgot when the message was sent or even what program you were using.

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Happens to me all the time. It's pretty easy to see how this would be extremely useful

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for quickly finding an important piece of information but it's also obvious that Windows has to collect

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lots of information for the feature to work properly.

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Recall uses a minimum of 25 gigabytes of space

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if you have a rather small 256 gigs SSD

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and the default amount that's allocated increases

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with larger disk sizes. And of course, Microsoft is aware

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that this sounds like a privacy nightmare. According to them, all of the data used by Recall

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never leaves your device and is processed by the neural processing unit or NPU in your PC.

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So the data doesn't need to be sent to the cloud. Of course, this still reinforces the importance

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of making sure your machine is secure as Recall won't do things like hide account numbers

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or passwords. Microsoft says that Recall data is gonna be secured

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the same way as other data on your PC. But seeing as you're probably not used to thinking

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of any random ephemeral thing that just happens

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to be on your screen is becoming part of a semi-permanent record.

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We're interested to see if Microsoft will beef up security around Recall as time goes on.

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In the meantime, it is possible to exclude certain programs

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and web browsers from Recall if you'd like.

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Thank goodness for that. But here's the thing, there's a very good chance

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you won't be able to even get Recall on your home PC anyway.

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Recall is intended to be a feature on PCs that Microsoft is labeling with co-pilot plus.

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Branding not to be confused with just co-pilot, the Windows AI assistant that has already been out

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for a while, co-pilot plus PCs must have 16 gigs of RAM

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and 256 gigs of storage, but also importantly,

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have to have an NPU rated for at least 40 trillion

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operations per second. Right now, there aren't any current consumer grade

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x86 CPUs out there that include an NPU this powerful.

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By comparison, current Intel and AMD products are capable of less than half of the number of operations.

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This means the first product certified for co-pilot plus will instead be laptops

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that contain Qualcomm Snapdragon X elite and X plus chips,

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which are ARM based and will serve as something of a competitor to the M series chips found in Apple devices.

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Although there has already been one Tinkerer who has gotten at Recall working on lower spec systems

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that don't have an NPU, most folks will either need to buy one of these new laptops,

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which will be out later this month, or wait until late 2024 when the 24H2 update drops

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for x86 PCs and when we're expecting to see CPUs

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from Intel and AMD that feature compatible NPUs.

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Are you looking forward to having a search feature this powerful or does it seem too creepy for you

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to be interested? Let us know down in the comments and thanks for watching.

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Be sure to check out our other video on NPUs. If you wanna find out more about how they work.