So is this like .... RGB Clippy or something?
Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs
Submitted 1 day ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to games@lemmy.world
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mintiefresh@piefed.ca 5 hours ago
raman_klogius@ani.social 1 day ago
I missed the time when AI in games refer just to the NPC’s programming, and Cortana is only a character in Halo.
Gibibit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Reading old game reviews or game development blogs and books where AI was just pathfinding and decision trees is something special.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If the new Marathon makes AI the heroes instead of the villains I’m gonna be so mad.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Marathon AIs weren’t all bad.
Leela meant well but was completely outclassed.
Durandal had been rampant since before the first game and only reached some degree of stability once he stole that Pfhor ship. He was basically designed to be unstable. While he was certainly an asshole with rather loose morals, he also made sure that Leela could warm humanity about the Pfhor and that his S’pht allies got what they wanted. He’s on the verge of being an antihero.
Tycho… Well, we only saw him after the Pfhor rebuilt him and that version of him is pretty clearly a villain.
Thoth was barely conscious until he merged with Durandal. I can’t say much about him. He is possibly involved with altering the timeline after the W’rkncacnter was released so I’d book him as a good guy.
(I am mad at the new Marathon but for different reasons than the AIs.)
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
So right next to my achievements list I have a stupid chatbot that can take longer to less accurately tell me my achievements.
caut_R@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Can‘t wait for this bubble to burst
artyom@piefed.social 1 day ago
I mean yes and no. It will be great when it’s not crammed down our throats but also not so great when the economy collapses under the realization that they’ve been investing hundreds of billions of dollars in an industry that will never ROI.
rozodru@piefed.social 1 day ago
it’s bursting now. within the past few months to a year I’ve made more money switching my focus from freelance/consultion dev work to, essentially, a freelance digital janitor targeting AI. I get clients that desperately need to fix the slop they’ve produced and have me code review it to see how practical that is (9 times out of 10, it isn’t.)
The calls/emails I’m getting from potential new clients are becoming more frequent on a weekly basis. People are panicking. And I know when it finally does finish bursting that it’s going to be hell out there. So since I’m now making more money than ever I’m saving AS MUCH as possible because I hope to come out of this shit on the other side and retire.
To other devs potentially reading this, Get good at code reviewing and start leveraging that. it’s a skill that IS in demand right now and will be for awhile. Just the tech bros on linkedin are unwilling to admit it.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Who asked for this? Beyond Microsoft executives who want to justify their paycheck, I mean.
Though really there might be good entertainment value for a few streamers out there. Use it on a niche game or a fairly complex one and laugh at the inevitable hallucinated bullshit as the assistant pretend to know about it.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
These features get built because Microsoft and other tech companies evaluate staff on “AI use” and building AI features.
That means everyone has to build AI shit or get put on a PIP.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Yeah, I am sure that’s what happened too. That’s part of what I called executives justifying their paycheck, because it’s a direct consequence. Make sure everyone below gets in on the program, or get rid of them.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Fantastic, then maybe it has the potential to be very confidently wrong about everything!
arudesalad@piefed.ca 19 hours ago
Microsoft rolled out an AI chatbot for minecraft a few weeks ago and it is completely useless (unless you are asking about the marketplace). I feel like you won't even need to be playing a niche game for it to hallucinate.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 12 hours ago
Wow the thing is pathetic.
sine@programming.dev 22 hours ago
I tried WoW for the first time a few months ago. I was hanging in voice chat with perplexity live mode, asking it about the meta, to give me estimations on gearing up (both money and time) and to give me extra lore context and information about pricing, content per expansion and so on.
I also used it to get instant summaries and info in arena breakout, and help me regain context when I’ve stopped playing a game for a while (I have to do X quest now, what has happened?).
I’m not going to use this specific thing from microsoft, but LLM are incredible tools for interfacing with non structured data through natural language. The AI assistants are going to be huge.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 day ago
It’s time to nope the fuck out of the Microsoft ecosystem altogether, if not already
Whitebrow@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Copilot! What is the race and sexual orentaion of the player who headshot me!?
ICastFist@programming.dev 19 hours ago
Copilot: “That’s a great question! XxX_420694ever_XxX’s race is “pounding” and sexual orientation is “yo mama”, would you like to see this player’s achievements?”
mohab@piefed.social 1 day ago
They can use Gaming Copilot’s Voice Mode to get assistance with in-game tasks, ask it to recommend new games to play, check their achievements or their play history, and more.
“A major step in Xbox’s journey to bring these AI-powered experiences to players is rolling out: Gaming Copilot – which provides recommendations, help, insights and more – is officially coming to Windows PC and Xbox on mobile,” Microsoft said.
OK, so like what? “Jarvis, what’s the solution to this puzzle?” or “Jarvis, how do I complete this quest?”
Like, is it gonna replace looking up guides?
I can see this being useful to achievement hunters instead of having to repeatedly alt-tab to see what’s left, but how often does the typical player look up guides?
And what is the end goal? Essentially turning it into a cheat engine that plays the game for you?
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
This would not benefit me one iota
pikachus_ghost_uncle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bring back clippy have it appear when you’re stuck on something “looks like you’re stuck on this puzzle. Want me to lower the difficulty for you cause you’re bad at this game?”
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Looks like Savage Beastfly is wrecking yo ass. Want me to help you git gud?”
Goodeye8@piefed.social 23 hours ago
I’m currently playing No Mans Sky and the game throws so many random items your way without any indication as to what it’s used for. I have containers upon containers full of things I’ve never used because I have no idea where or when to use them. I could google and end up in a fandom wiki where I’ll get wrong information because the page is missing information about the last X updates that have changed what the thing does. In that scenario I could absolutely see a use case for gaming AI where I don’t have to waste my time getting the wrong information as the AI can instantly tell me that wrong information.
But more realistically I could also see AI being used to help people get from nothing to a meta build, because most games that have meta builds have guides only for what the meta build is and no explanation how to get to the meta build or what parts of the meta build are important. That’s why you see people blindly imitating meta builds and then getting absolutely obliterated because they have no idea why the meta is meta. AI could fill in those blanks while playing the game. I guess it could even be abstracted to just helping follow the meta meta. Like for instance in CS2 if you’re an average player and you have no idea how the rounds flow the AI could tell you “the opposing team has X economy, buy Y and be aware of Z”, which technically isn’t cheating as it’s just game knowledge, but IMO it’s borderline cheating.
I could come up with ideas how AI could be used by the average gamer, but all those ideas kinda expect AI to be actually useful and I’m not sold on AI being that useful.
untorquer@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Game wikis and meta knowledge result from experimentation and lead to communities. Any game with a following organically develops this community and it’s part of the creativity that makes a game worthwhile for long-term players.
AI would simultaneously rely on that community’s knowledge base while precluding the players interactions with that community. These communities are already strained and AI adoption spells death to a games development because of this increased isolation. Veteran players and the communities are simply the best way to generate market interest in a game without a giant budget.
If a developer produces version 1.0 and this cycles through, the Dev has a hard choice about any patches that impact meta. Will the players get frustrated because it giant play the way there told it should? How will the AI understand the new stuff?
These thoughts aren’t fully fleshed out but it seems to me that AI game assistant would hurt small developers, hurt gaming communities, and concentrate the market even more on those with the biggest marketing budgets.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Probably will be pretty useful for disabled gamers. I know a quadriplegic that plays games and this would be a godsend for him.
mohab@piefed.social 1 day ago
Probably, yes. I just wonder what kind of mass appeal this may have, if any.
taiyang@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I prefer to not bloat my gaming experience anymore then I have to, and I already get get annoyed when I’m playing on Windows and haven’t completely disabled that said Xbox game bar.
I think my line stops with in game overlays. Steam and most emulators have that, and that’s kinda fine to me (adds to the console feel). I just don’t want AI draining my resources as I’m playing, that’s asinine, and MS doubly so since they’re a redundant layer on top of my overlays.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
Switched to Linux. Don’t miss windows. Shit like this does not entice me.
sundray@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 19 hours ago
If AI allows one to cheat in games, I don’t think I’ll play online anymore.
vane@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Can it walk trough game so player can get all achievements ? I bet current zombies would play games like that, keep pad in hands and do nothing.
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Yesterday I’ve installed Bazzite (as a dual boot) for the first time. As a long time Windows user, Steam Deck convinced me lots of previous problems are solved now.
It’s the first ever I’ve installed a Linux Desktop distro willingly. And so far it’s working very, very smoothly even with my complex set of hardware.
WINDOWS USERS: Installling Bazzite is very, very easy. All you need is a some disk space, and a 16gb USB stick. You won’t lose any of your Windows data - even you don’t need to re-download any Steam game! Your Windows library will plug-in easily into Linux Steam.
Follow this guide and you’ll be grand: youtu.be/JxPsKhJGTrs
echodot@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
You lot need to coolmitnwithnthe Linux versions, there is loads of them and it’s confusing.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The same reason why there are many political parties, or restaurant brands, or even games: everyone thinks that their way is better, or are trying to improve on something that they like.
I get that it can be daunting for someone wanting to start, but just like with other topics you should start with something simple to dip your toes and move on from there. My personal recommendation has been Linux Mint, it has sane defaults, works out of the box for most cases and it’s popular enough (and based on another popular distro) which makes getting help easier.
Trying to pick your distro from the sea of available options might feel impossible, but 99% of the stuff is the same, so picking something that works out of the box for you is a great start, and you can learn what you need to make a meaningful choice afterwards.
Let me give you an example on the sort of differences you can expect: do you think that updates should be delivered as soon as possible or leave some delay to catch bugs/issues? If a delay how big should it be?; How much stuff should come installed by default with your system? Should you get a bare ones system to build up or something at least functional for everyday tasks to adapt?; Should you be able to edit your system files or should they be locked so it’s harder to break stuff?. These sort of questions might seem pointless, but they’re the core differences between Linux distros, and if you’re answer to them is I don’t know/care anything that works out of the box would be good enough until you develop an opinion on the matter.
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Well, first I’m not “that lot”, been using Windows since 1997 and will continue to do so because my line of work.
But, I think you can see what’s going on with Android over Google, where there’s not so much “versions” around.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Because Linux is open source and each group has a different idea on the direction it should go. They are all linux at their core, but they all have different use cases.
Bazzite and Zorin are both great options for leaving Windows for the first time. Bazzite is generally more gaming focused but Zorin is a better desktop in my limited experience of both. Bazzite for example is more locked up on OS files, so it’s harder to break in some regards. But it also bakes drivers into the image and they only get updated on the next release. Afaik you can’t tinker with the drivers much but I’m not experienced enough to say 100%.