Microsoft Gives Up On Xbox Copilot AI (theverge.com) 18
Microsoft is winding down Xbox Copilot on mobile and ending development of Copilot on console, reversing plans to bring the gaming-focused AI assistant to current-generation Xbox consoles this year. "The move follows [new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's] reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tuesday, which added executives from Microsoft's CoreAI team -- where Sharma worked before taking over Xbox -- to the Xbox side of the company," reports The Verge.
Sharma said in a post on X: Xbox needs to move faster, deepen our connection with the community, and address friction for both players and developers. Today, we promoted leaders who helped build Xbox, while also bringing in new voices to help push us forward. This balance is important as we get the business back on track. As part of this shift, you'll see us begin to retire features that don't align with where we're headed. We will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console. Since taking over for former Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer in February, Sharma has scrapped the Microsoft Gaming brand and cut the price of Xbox Game Pass.
Sharma said in a post on X: Xbox needs to move faster, deepen our connection with the community, and address friction for both players and developers. Today, we promoted leaders who helped build Xbox, while also bringing in new voices to help push us forward. This balance is important as we get the business back on track. As part of this shift, you'll see us begin to retire features that don't align with where we're headed. We will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console. Since taking over for former Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer in February, Sharma has scrapped the Microsoft Gaming brand and cut the price of Xbox Game Pass.
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My personal example with Elite Dangerous is I tried to use Copilot and Gemini to plot a route with points of interest from Colonia to Sagittarius A*.
They failed confidently and miserably.
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The worst part is the confidence. I don't care if someone or something doesn't know something or can't come up with a solution. That's orders of magnitude than thinking that they can. It's okay to say no.
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I always thought AI chatbots would be a great replacement for pre-generated NPC interactions. I remember Starship Titanic has a very ambitious text-based chat interface for all its characters, but you could only ask about anything you wanted but only you could really only ask about specific objects and keywords. It was way ahead of its time. An AI chatbot could be amazing in this role, provided it could stay in character. But every chat costs money, and having millions of players chatting with NPCs won't be
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Spending money is the goal. They want to be able to charge us by the minute for playing their games.
Someone has somewhat integrated this into GTAV. I watched a Youtube video yesterday where someone was playing a cop in a police mod and stopping AI NPCs and questioning them. It worked quite well except that they didn't know a lot about the game world, so if he asked them "what colour is your friend's shirt?" it wouldn't know, but if he'd mentioned "your friend in the blue shirt" earlier in the conversation i
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> Am I the only one that can't imagine any possible value an AI assistant would bring to a game?
I use AI assistants lots when playing games!
At the moment it's Minecraft. I want to figure how to build something, e.g. a golem farm. I look for tutorials online but (1) they're all videos which I hate watching, (2) they're all hyper-specific and concrete, "place this block here then that block there", but what I want to understand are the foundational principles so I can know how to adapt the golem farm to my
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I would love it if I could ask the AI a question about the RPC I'm playing and have it give me an answer in a small pop-up. Today, I need to switch to the Xbox Edge browser, which sucks on console.
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Well, it would be if you were achievement hunting or trying to find something - you could use the AI as a way to get to that hidden chest or whatever. It could either guide you, or see you're struggling and actually provide an assist.
Could be useful if you're trying to 100% a game, or get something rare and hard to find.
Not that you couldn't Google it yourself on a phone or s
I wish title of TFS was shorter (Score:2)
Shorter as in "Microsoft Gives Up".
Now that would be a stellar news day!
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Call of Doody (Score:4, Funny)
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Apropos, today's MOTD is "The Computer made me do it."
Pretty satisfying watching them get beat by Sony (Score:1)
Short-sighted schadenfreude (Score:3)
I always liked Sony more than M$. It's been nice watching them out-innovate and out-maneuver Microshaft over the years. Now if we could just get them to rage quit from making desktop operating systems, that'd be great mmm'kay?
So life will be better if Sony and Nintendo are the only viable consoles? They don't directly compete with one another and MS has been very good about supporting their gaming hardware on PCs, including Linux ones. Also, MS really trailblazed the the games pass, something I am confident Sony would have NEVER done had MS not forced them.
You can love or hate MS. I have a slight preference for XBox over PS, but I am glad Sony is around keeping MS from getting complacent. I am personally intrigued by the