Amazon’s Prime Video is getting a new generative AI-powered feature to help catch you up on a show. The new tool, called X-Ray Recaps, can create text summaries of “of full seasons of TV shows, single episodes, and even pieces of episodes,” the company says in a blog post.
Prime Video will let you summon AI to recap what you’re watching
The new X-Ray Recaps feature will be able to summarize TV seasons, episodes, and parts of episodes.
The new X-Ray Recaps feature will be able to summarize TV seasons, episodes, and parts of episodes.
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X-Ray Recaps will be accessible from the detail page of a show or in X-Ray while you’re watching something. The tool “analyzes various video segments, combined with subtitles or dialogue, to generate detailed descriptions of key events, places, times, and conversations,” Amazon says. Amazon has also applied “guardrails” to help the feature avoid sharing spoilers and to keep summaries concise.
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X-Ray Recaps, which is are beta, are coming to Fire TV devices starting today, with support for “additional devices” available by the end of this year, Amazon says. The feature, at launch, will work with all Amazon MGM Studios Original series.
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