Welcome to the future, where your computer remembers more about your life than you do. Microsoft’s latest brainchild, the AI-powered Windows 11 Recall feature, announced during a Monday AI event, is a tech marvel designed to “recall” everything you’ve done on your PC for the past three months. Sounds handy, right? Well, only if you’re comfortable with the idea of your computer playing Big Brother.
This brilliant—or terrifying—feature is currently exclusive to Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X ARM processors. But don’t worry, Intel and AMD users; Microsoft assures us they’re working diligently to include you in this dystopian dream. Recall works by taking a screenshot of your active window every few seconds, turning your screen into a digital diary of sorts. These snapshots are analyzed by an on-device Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and an AI model to extract data, saving it all in a semantic index. This allows users to browse their history or search for specific moments using human language queries. How cozy.
