adding AI to everything will continue until morale improves
If you need that much handholding, why not just watch a playthrough on YouTube and save yourself the money?
i no cap do this for puzzles that i don’t give a shit about and do not enjoy solving
Fair, I don’t want to solve puzzles, I wanna kill zombies.
Because the concentration span of every new generation keeps decreasing. If they don’t figure out things immediately, they get frustrated and do sth else like scroll TikTok to get the instant dopamine boost.
We’re doomed, aren’t we?
A trillion dollars to reinvent cheat codes.
What a world.
They will train it on user input and have it tell players to “kill this” or “kill that”, what could go wrong…
We’ll see if Nintendo continues to do the smart thing, while their opponents shoot themselves in the foot, which is nothing
Nintendo is terrible as well, they dont even let people stream their games last I heard.
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Can Microsoft play its own games for me so I don’t have to play them?
That’s the idea, but you need to pay for the game first so that MS can enjoy it.
project Helix is a rack mounted xbox. I get it now.
why
literally give me one reason why this should exist
They’ve been trying so hard, and they’ve got nothing.
They went all-in on mystifying predictive text, enjoy your slop.
To quickly add 200 million unwilling new Copilot users for the next shareholder report since nobody’s buying the Microslop? Not that it’s a good reason, but that’s my guess.
Come on, Satya’s bonus depends on it!
As it currently exists on other platforms, Gaming Copilot lets you ask guide-like questions about the game you’re currently playing. Microsoft’s official site offers an example question like “Can you remind me what materials I need to craft a sword in Minecraft?”
I haven’t used consoles for a few generations, but historically, switching between a game and a Web browser on a console wasn’t all that great, and text entry wasn’t all that great. I dunno if things have improved, but it was definitely a pain in the neck to refer to a website in-game historically.
On Linux, Wayland, I swap between fullscreen desktops when playing games, and often have a Web browser with information relevant to the game on another desktop. If it helps enable some approximation of a workflow like that for console players, that doesn’t sound unreasonable.
There are other objections I’d have, like not really wanting someone logging what my voice sounds like or giving Microsoft even more data on me to profile with via my searches. But it sounds to me like the basic functionality has a point.
“Aw dang, I completely forgot how to make one of the most basic recipes in minecraft.”
For the uninitiated: you take a stick. You take some whatever you think, and you make a sword shape. At the point in the game where you don’t know what a sword can be made of you probably have dirt, wood, and stone. Through arduous trial and error I’m sure you can figure it something out.
I just keep an iPad set up next to me when playing a game. I can look up guides, and use it to do online chat as well.
I think that there is a niche for platform-provided guides like on Steam. They’d probably not be user-created on consoles tho because of a potential liability for what 69_gamer_420 wrote, but either game studios themselves or existing 3rd parties could’ve created a web app to serve their guides in the overlay or integrate these into the game itself (prerecorded ghost-players?). If it could have been put as a standard accessibility feature by Microsoft, I could see it happening. And I find it more probable than a genuinely helpful chatbot because of too many dependencies on context in each and every game. I’ve already got unasked advices on a few games that boiled down to using mechanics not present in exact games I was googling about.
If they just moderate the fucking platform people pay for user created guides aren’t a problem.
I just use my phone to look stuff up if I’m on my steam deck.
I’ll preface by saying I don’t think it’s a good idea, but-
Fallout TV Show (and friends) have brought a lot of new people to gaming that might have eschewed it before, a lot of those people have no idea what they’re doing in videogames.
An ‘AI assistant’ could help in a face-saving way (consider a 60 year old father who’s never played, and possibly chastised games in the past, is now getting into Fallout NV due to the TV show - asking their kids that they ridiculed about games would be embarrassing, but asking an AI may not be)
Basically, letting old people who hated videogames, play videogames.
In what way would the AI help
Like, what specific thing would it do?
In a Hello Google kind of way, I guess. Creating a summary of existing web pages, hoping it would be somehow correct.
Why not just… use Google?
Idk. I’m criticizing it and am not a person to use it. If anything, I’d like to read human-made guides myself. But, yeah, if Cortana/CoPilot would do anything, it would be just a neuro summary of first links on Google that you can get by voice inputting prompts. MS has no technology to insert itself into every new game in any way but with this crude and slightly context-aware voice assistant it can output a summary of these links, however correct they are.
Why must people pay video games? If people don’t like it, just don’t play it. Watch a YouTube playthrough if you must.
Automating the experience of art is such a dystopian nightmare.
Also they’ll quickly learn about games where you need to git gud. Most games, especially recently, come equipped with a “baby mode storytime” difficulty setting, and theres more slice-of-life job-simulator games than ever.
If you try and go from “games are for children im too old for these newfangled marios” to “bullethell deathfest 6” youre gonna have a bad time
Fucking disgusting, Microslop cannot help themselves, Satya needs to be thrown out of the company at this stage. He’s going to run Microsoft into the ground and everything they ever bought. As eventually, people are just going to stop paying and using their stuff with this continued forced push of LLM garbage. It needs to stop. I use Linux as my main operating system, my Xbox Series S is an extra in my home. It will be replaced with a Steam Machine ASAP.
Hey… Not to worry. The goal is for us to be forced to use proprietary, AI ridden malware. Android is locking down, age verification and hardware level scanning laws are coming to every western nation. They would never just outlaw Linux but they could neuter its freedom and autonomy. Privacy ROMs will be banned soon, either explicitly or by being made near impossible to get. Every device, every interaction online, every communication, will be scanned for state approved guidelines.
Thiel, the Heritage Foundation, the Elsons, and a bunch of rich fucks and companies want to control every single part of your life. Mark my words when I tell you, if they get their way in the future, we’ll all be slaves (literal slaves, not wage slaves) and neurolinks will be forced in every single person. These people are disgusting and sick
nuerolinks forced on every single person? lol okay, that’s enough internet for today…
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Microslop trying to ease the comming AI bubble crash by forcing AI down our throat?
Microslop has always failed upwards.
That’s really not true though. If Satya hadn’t guided Microsoft to their current cloud services model, their loses in various anti-trust cases could have ended the company as a penny stock.
These huge companies aren’t immune to consequences.
SEARS was untouchable, and is now nothing.
SEARS didn’t adapt. They were a mailorder king in the 80s, but somehow they didn’t feel online store was the method they should go with…which is just mailorder with an online catalog.
Same seems to be happening with MS, they don’t understand their clients.
This would make more sense if they didn’t idioticly rebrand from cortana, the AI from halo, to copilot
Which was already the name of a feature on the xbox to have 2 controllers pretending to be one. Is it the same thing as the thing on Windows that keeps trying to force its way down my throat or something different that has the same name so when people complain online about it there will be deliberate confusion about the exact nature of the complaint until frustration causes users to lash out at eachother instead of finding and fixing the problem?
Quick poll: did anyone ask for this? Any single person at all?
You know the one
There’s one person. He is bald and has a very chokeable trachea.
I had no idea Mr Clean has a choking fetish…
AI Georg, who asks for this 10,000 times per day, is an outlier and should not have been counted
Data miners. Mining minors.
I mean, MS does support Trump
Fuck sakes, I bet I can’t turn automatic updates off / can’t play installed games without internet access…
I have a… xbox one x, I think? Is that a current gen console? I’ll have to make sure its offline if they try to insert that shit in my box.
I don’t need this Microslop
Can I tell it to get rid of the ads on my Xbox home screen?
No. But you can use it to get misinformation.
They likely want to start collecting data. So they need to get something rushed out so that they can build up the pile of data they will need to build out and refine this feature in time for the launch of their next console.
