First pay for the game, then pay for slop shit so you don’t have to play the game. Corporate big brain time at its best 😄
Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you
Submitted 1 month ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://tech4gamers.com/microsoft-patents-xbox-system-human-helpers/
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meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Not even. They’re going to sell you the idea that you’re a game dev, and sell you each piece and asset.
It’s the optimized AI version of “during a gold rush, is the people selling shovels and picks that get rich.”
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Finish” as in beat or best, not as in complete a development work to be shipped
Dojan@pawb.social 1 month ago
To be fair, the corpo slop games aren’t really worth playing, never mind paying for.
raicon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Might as well watch youtube for free
albbi@piefed.ca 1 month ago
Might as well skip the gameplay, give the achievements and trigger the good ending.
harmbugler@piefed.social 1 month ago
Might as well close your eyes, smile and and imagine you are king of the world.
kokesh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What’s the point of gaming with this?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There are plenty of people who are happy to cheat at anything.
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s kind of like the old Nintendo hotline. Call when you’re stuck on something in a game. Or just looking up a walkthrough online.
That said, this makes it far easier to ask for help and kids might just rely on it too much instead of figuring stuff out on their own.
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
With the hotline and guides you still had to actually play yourself. This is a step further, you just watch the game play itself.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah I don’t get it. Just have a program write to a file with the finished game data, no need for an AI to waste cycles playing the game for you.
lorty@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
If it works I expect it to be popular. A lot of people don’t actually want to engage with videogames and would rather zombie through the experience
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Exactly, “I hate the grind”, “The boss/sub boss fights are too hard”, “I only have so many hours in a day”.
Some days I barely have an hour to play a game, sometimes I think maybe, just maybe, I could use a bot/AI to get a little more done while I’m doing those tedious life things, then I think “What’s the point if I don’t do it myself?”
christian@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I do play some video games and I guess this is nice, but what I really enjoy is listening to music. When am I gonna get an AI helper to listen to songs for me so I can get that done during my quiet time?
christian@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Also there should be an AI to pet and play with my cat, that way all I need to do is buy food and pay vet bills and clean the litter.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wish I could get an AI to hang out with my wife and kids so I could spend more time creating shareholder value.
fum@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why even bother living. Just get “AI” to live for you, and recycle your meaningless meat form.
Bieren@lemmy.today 1 month ago
You exist to be exploited for the benefit of the shareholders. This allows you to work so many more hours a day.
sonofearth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh don’t worry. Some AI boot licker will come to defend this as well. “WelL yOu SeE nOt EvErYoNe HaS tHe TiMe To PlAy GaMeS. ThIs WiLl MaKe GaMiNg MoRe EfFiCiEnT.”
cmbabul@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’ve come to loathe term efficiency
blunderworld@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Who even wants this?
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
People who are stuck on a boss and can’t get past it.
Caesium@lemmy.world 1 month ago
is that even fun though? part of what makes a difficult boss fight so satisfying is when you finally DO beat it
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would rather pay another human being to TeamViewer in a d beat the boss.
Good Lord.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d rather stop playing than have an AI finish it for me.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why not just put in a “skip” button?
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Microsoft execs eager for a bonus.
Tamps@feddit.uk 1 month ago
The other thing the helps people get unstuck in games is good game design. 🙃
<sigh> I suppose this is just the equivalent of reading a game guide that someone has written, but this feels like it could remove too much friction. Are you playing the game if everything just becomes a tutorial?
arcine@jlai.lu 1 month ago
First they came for our jobs, next our hobbies, now for our very entertainment ? Who could ever ask for a feature such as this !?
Ibisalt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
look, on the bright side they burn up every ressource on the planet.
Nugscree@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Next new AI feature; an AI that can watch the series/films for you, think of all the time you can save!
TwilitSky@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Can it spit on me and tell me I’m worthless?
cmbabul@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Are we all certain they haven’t just been asking an AI trained on Pimp My Ride clips for advice? This path seems to point to “we heard you like AI, so we put an AI on your AI to use your AI”. And only X to the Z can save us now
boogiebored@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They need it to do something, anything, to justify the investment. As time goes and the sunk cost gets worse, the attempts will be more desperate.
This kind of feature will be for a fee.
They are all looking for a “killer AI app”.
This is why “consciousness” is trying to be marketed as achieved. This assumes the tasks performed can be varied, adapted to, and the AI left unattended while its rich owner fucks off and no longer has to pretend to pay insurance premiums for workers.
PrinceOfSloth@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
i hope they sit on the patent to prevent other devs in implementating AI assistants in their games.
thorhop@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Wake up, babe - the stupid ass patent wars are back again, AI edition.
LievitoPadre@feddit.it 1 month ago
I mean… Use the developers console or a cheat if you’re stuck with something and want to continue playing, or just quit the game. There’s no need for an AI to do this.
T156@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I do wish that more games still had cheats. It does feel a bit like a lot of newer games have foregone them entirely. You can’t type plane into GTA V, and have a plane materialise, like you could in Vice City, for example.
You’d need to mod it in.
andallthat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not a gamer, but I read that people were paying gamers in other countries to play as them and “power up” their characters. If that’s true, it could conceivably be a “job” for AI.
On the other hand, how do people buy games that are so frustrating that you actively pay money to someone (person or AI) to play them for you? It goes completely against my idea of what a game represents.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
`A STRANGE GAME.
THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS
NOT TO PLAY.`
Furbag@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They don’t just want the machines to create the art and music for us, they want them to consume it for us too, so that we’ll have more time to slave away at our jobs.
wabafee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ain’t this just botting?
glimse@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My biggest fear with this is an arms race between puzzle developers and these solvers. I hope devs never design their games with the expectation that players will use AI
Nugscree@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hell I’d make the puzzles in such a way just to confuse the AI “helper”.
glimse@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That is kind of same thing. I don’t want the existence of AI solvers to influence how a puzzle is designed at all
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Clearly they think that gaming is the same as working.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So, basically a movie?
Eggyhead@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Then they tell publishers and game developers that more players finish their games on Microsoft’s platform than any others!
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This sounds like the ironically good version of the Nemesis System patent - no AI helpers in non-Microslop games for the next 20 years.
db2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Feed it Ski Free.
glitch1985@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That stupid jumpy bear can gargle my balls.
borth@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
How would the assistant “proceed to chat and guide the user through the process of acquiring the gem”, if it already took “control from the player”? 🤔
Zink@programming.dev 1 month ago
Prior art: I remember a long time ago seeing a video of a Barney (as in purple dinosaur) video game for little kids that would just start playing itself if you didn’t touch the controller for a while. It was a side scroller, probably NES/SNES/Genesis.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Eh… Folks used to pay people to level up their characters in WoW…
scala@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
That’s what I was thinking this would be used for. Leveling MMO characters, or grinding gold.
Swordsman had an bot where you would let it take control while it farmed an area around where you let it.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
Wasn’t there a similar shit patent headline about sony doing that?
Oh yeah, there was, “ghost assistance”, aka “no need to look up on youtube”; something which I’m pretty sure exists as “previous art” in some game or another - gamesindustry.biz/sony-patents-ai-generated-ghost…
Also, bots that automate play have existed since the old MUD days, this patent must be like the many that are “something that already exists, but
on a computerwith AI”Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One of the mario games would have Luigi show up and play a level for you if you kept dying
Nugscree@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do you know which one? I would love to see that xD
gilokee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
!fuckai@lemmy.world
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Yoda voice: Begun the AI Patent wars have.
roserose56@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
So when everyone speaks about a game and it’s scenes, you will be “the what?”.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Elon will love this
lostbit@feddit.nl 1 month ago
so good