Finally! Ring cams will stop bombarding you with AI alerts

From PC World: Ring’s AI event notifications are handy when it comes to getting text descriptions of what’s happening around your abode, but too many of the AI-generated pop-ups can get annoying fast.

To cut down on the chatter, Ring is debuting a new feature: AI Single Event Alert, which takes multiple AI notifications from related motion events captured by your Ring cameras and combines them into—you guessed it—a single alert.

The feature, which is slated to begin rolling out today for subscribers to Ring’s priciest subscription plan, joins a couple of other Ring AI tools that were first introduced last fall: Video Descriptions, which employ AI to write brief summaries of video events, and Smart Video Search, which allows you to comb through your saved videos using natural-language queries.

AI Single Event Alert works by taking multiple Video Descriptions, analyzing their summaries to pinpoint “patterns and similarities that signal one ongoing activity,” and then combining those summaries into a single notification.

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