TECH NEWS – This artificial intelligence-powered chatbot makes the idea of chatting with your console instead of your friends a reality…
The official Xbox podcast revealed the work behind the gaming-focused artificial intelligence. Guests on the podcast were Xbox Corporate Vice President of Gaming AI Fatima Kardar and Vice President of Next Generation Jason Ronald. In Overwatch 2, you can see the AI making recommendations for character choices before the match, then explaining why the player got beat so badly, and then suggesting a character switch. In Minecraft, it gives a tutorial of sorts when the player asks the AI what to do, and Copilot for Gaming explains step-by-step how to build a house by hitting a tree.
“Copilot for Gaming is designed to help you save time, find new games you’re likely to love, or even help you get back into a game you may have quit. Copilot for Gaming is built on three principles: power, adaptability and personalization. It is designed to help players in a variety of ways, from personalized game recommendations and seamless game setup to helpful coaching and maintaining connections with friends,” Microsoft said.
Beyond in-game assistance, Copilot for Gaming will help connect us to our families and communities, tell us what our friends are doing online, recommend new games so we don’t have to talk to people whose opinions we value, and chat with them if we want. Kardar says it’s important that Copilot for Gaming is not intrusive and that players have complete control over how or if they interact with it.
“Explorations and proof of concepts, but what’s really cool about them is they help us understand what we need to do on the platform. With Overwatch 2, we really explored what it takes to get to that threshold of feeling successful. And I love that term, because your level of feeling successful is different than my level of feeling successful. And so we explored some scenarios like support, like team composition, what could you do, right? And then maybe after the game, kind of coaching you and doing it in the downtime,” says Kardar.
The question is to what extent they make it mandatory…
Source: PCGamer
