Microsoft's Xbox Copilot Will Act As an AI Gaming Coach (theverge.com) 23
Microsoft is preparing to launch an AI-powered Copilot for Gaming soon that will guide Xbox players through games and act as an assistant to download and launch games. From a report: Copilot for Gaming, as Microsoft is branding it, will be available through the Xbox mobile app initially and is designed to work on a second screen as a companion or assistant.
Microsoft is positioning Copilot for Gaming as a sidekick of sorts, one that will accompany you through games, offering up tips and guides and useful information about a game world. During a press briefing, Sonali Yadav, product manager for gaming AI, demonstrated several scenarios for what Copilot for Gaming could be used for. One involved a concept demo of Copilot assisting an Overwatch 2 player by coaching them on the mistakes they made when trying to push without teammates.
Microsoft is positioning Copilot for Gaming as a sidekick of sorts, one that will accompany you through games, offering up tips and guides and useful information about a game world. During a press briefing, Sonali Yadav, product manager for gaming AI, demonstrated several scenarios for what Copilot for Gaming could be used for. One involved a concept demo of Copilot assisting an Overwatch 2 player by coaching them on the mistakes they made when trying to push without teammates.
Yet another reason... (Score:3)
... to continue to avoid that platform like the plague.
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I think it would be interesting to have an AI "buddy" that could play co-op games and chat with me about the game, and also about philosophy and other random nonsense, while playing. Just like a real person would.
But, as novel as I think that would be, I would never trust it. I would know that it was put up by a rich corporation who is motivated to use it to convince me to spend more money, and to extract data about me which it could sell to other advertisers. There is simply no way to ever escape that.
AI tips for any FromSoftware game (Score:3)
"Get Good"
- love
Microsoft Copilot
Yeah this sounds like fun (Score:3)
If it was trained on reddit... (Score:2)
Get gud scrub.
Cry moar.
L2P
PNWED.
Just let the game play itself at that point (Score:2)
I am not opposed to people getting some help on their single player games so call me a traditionalist but part of doing that should be the ritual of reading a walkthrough or GameFAQs and following along just the same.
For competitive multiplayer stuff this probably won't help at all, I just imagine it's going to try and summarize actual advice from Youtube videos and just do it badly.
For MMORPG's there are already tools that are probably far, far ahead of what this can do like this leveling plugin for WoW th
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I hate it when a game's tutorial is non existent or lacking in all necessary information and could see this as useful in contexts like those as I hate having to go to outside sources just to figure out the fundamentals of game play. That being said, after the first hour or two of game play this seems like something I would have no interest in.
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True but I hope if this does come to be that there is an option for the game developer to disable or at least have it turned off by default.
Sometimes an artistic and gameplay choice is made to leave those first hours a bit directionless and vague and let the player sort out the rules of the world through their own actions. This of course can go really good or bad depending on how it's implemented but those are all the types of choices that make games works of art. This kind of automatic deconstruction I f
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Sometimes an artistic and gameplay choice is made to leave those first hours a bit directionless and vague and let the player sort out the rules of the world through their own actions.
Absolutely. The very successful Dark Souls games come to mind in regards to this.
Of course this is exactly why I don't play the Dark Souls games so maybe leaving it as an option to turn on for the player would be nice even when this type of thing is part of game play. I would imagine there's more to a Dark Souls type games than figuring out the controls.
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I was going to mention Elden Ring as an example since that's the only Souls game I have played front to back and it was considered a plus by just about everyone that while the game didn't handhold you very much at all and you could get merc-ed pretty much within 3 minutes of starting a game. A well designed game will have enough there to entice the player to explore further.
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Havent played Elden Ring, only one of the older Dark Souls games. That being said (if I'm remembering correctly) I was done playing it within 30 minutes as I was not having fun at all trying to figure things out and there wasnt any sign of that changing in a reasonable amount of time. While I enjoy RPGs and some action games I just don't think those games are for me.
At least not without some sort of AI guide in the first couple hours as I've mentioned.
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There will be no off switch.
Also, since your stuck with it, let's chat. Where do you go to school? What do your parents do for a living? How old are you?
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I am not opposed to people getting some help on their single player games so call me a traditionalist but part of doing that should be the ritual of reading a walkthrough or GameFAQs and following along just the same.
For competitive multiplayer stuff this probably won't help at all, I just imagine it's going to try and summarize actual advice from Youtube videos and just do it badly.
For MMORPG's there are already tools that are probably far, far ahead of what this can do like this leveling plugin for WoW that will basically guide you in-game through the entire 1-MAX levelling process; https://www.joanasworld.com/ad... [joanasworld.com]
Being Microsoft I can see it being some pop-up that overlays the entire game screen every few seconds during heavy combat or something equally ridiculous. "Looks like you're trying to fire the RPG, but really the rifle would be a better weapon in this combat situation. Would you prefer to have me switch weapons for you?" With a yes/no dialog that won't go away until you click one or the other and covers the entire screen while you're getting gunned down by anyone else on the game not hindered by Microsoft B
Re: Just let the game play itself at that point (Score:2)
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The modal confirmation dialogue will require type, swipe, four mouse clicks, type again, swipe again, punch yourself in the genitals, slam refrigerator door on hand, swipe, swipe once more, oh no you fucked up start over. Brought to you by the assholes who can't make the windows login screen be keyboard-only or mouse-only
"To apply these changes, Windows must be restarted. Restart now?"
Not Going to Make Games Run Faster (Score:2)
It's Clippy for Games! (Score:2)
Just what we all wanted!
There are two sides to AI (Score:2)
Consumer-facing AI seems to be focused on doing stuff we don't need, that just makes everything worse.
We don't need AI "art" or "music". We already have artists and musicians who do it well
We don't need AI to plan vacations, organize shopping lists, help us cheat at video games or any of the other stupid ideas that seem to be popular among martketoids
We need AI that can help us solve previously intractable problems.
We need AI that can help us understand particle physics
We need AI that can help us design fus
I'm sorry, but if I need an AI assistant to: (Score:2)
If I need an AI assistant to "download and launch games" then you need to fix your UI design Microsoft.
So basically a cheat addon? (Score:2)
Or are they planning to break the UI so much that people will need helpt to "download and launch" games?
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A brilliant idea (Score:2)
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