Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year

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• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  why

  literally give me one reason why this should exist

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  • danglybits27@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Come on, Satya’s bonus depends on it!

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “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.

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    • Eggyhead@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Tetragrade@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If we dont sell this crap the entire world economy will implode. Now eat your Microslop.

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  • Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re been trying so hard, and they’ve got nothing.

    They went all in on mystifying predictive text, enjoy your slop.

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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 on 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.

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    • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In what way would the AI help

      Like, what specific thing would it do?

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can Microsoft play its own games for me so I don’t have to play them?

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  • mrfriki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s the idea, but you need to pay for the game first so that MS can enjoy it.

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    • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      project Helix is a rack mounted xbox. I get it now.

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    • Robaque@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Monetised altruism <3

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• Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Quick poll: did anyone ask for this? Any single person at all?

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s one person. He is bald and has a very chokeable trachea.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I had no idea Mr Clean has a choking fetish…

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  • bequirtle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    AI Georg, who asks for this 10,000 times per day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

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  • IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Data miners. Mining minors.

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    • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, MS does support Trump

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You know the one

    Image

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• goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This would make more sense if they didn’t idioticly rebrand from cortana, the AI from halo, to copilot

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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?

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• daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Exactly what your few remaining fans want.

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• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What does that even mean?

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  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My copilot could totally has a sexier voice than yours…

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A trillion dollars to reinvent cheat codes.

  What a world.

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• P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you need that much handholding, why not just watch a playthrough on YouTube and save yourself the money?

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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i no cap do this for puzzles that i don’t give a shit about and do not enjoy solving

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    • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fair, I don’t want to solve puzzles, I wanna kill zombies.

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    • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I feel the same way. Yeah it’s nice to figure out a puzzle, but at some point i would rather stop playing than keep trying.

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Talos Principle be like

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  • bridgeburner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We’re doomed, aren’t we?

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• xvertigox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck sakes, I bet I can’t turn automatic updates off / can’t play installed games without internet access…

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• glitzer_gadze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t need this shit

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• The1TruePower@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Growing old is watching all of your heroes die

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why was Microsoft ever your hero?

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    • janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When you were a kid in the early 2000’s, you didnt know about things like bill gates being a pedophile and “microslop”, you just knew that on friday night you were going to go over to your friends house and play halo and gears on their xbox. Those were simpler times

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    • The1TruePower@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was a kid late 90s / early 2000s. Microsoft was the silly pinball game on my grandmas computer, drawing dicks on paint with my friends, learning to type in school, and Master Chief.

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• De_Narm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just don’t see how this could provide any value. Assuming a new games comes out, there is literally no information to train on but the game itself. You kind of need existing guides for that and if developers have to write them themselves, you might as well add those with a good full text search.

  On top of that, the age of guides seems kind of gone. Most games are quite on tue nose about everything and tend to present more tutorials than you will ever need.

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can I tell it to get rid of the ads on my Xbox home screen?

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  • itkovian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No. But you can use it to get misinformation.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They likely want to start collecting data. So the 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.

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Copilot seems like an online feature. As such, I hope it requires a GamePass subscription like all multiplayer games do.

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  • gworl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good news you can have it for free! Oh and don’t worry, it’ll automatically be included with the next update!

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    *all non-F2P multiplayer games

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• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Current-generations consoles? You know you can’t put copilot on switch 2, Microsoft?

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• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They will train it on user input and have it tell players to “kill this” or “kill that”, what could go wrong…

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• blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We’ll see if Nintendo continues to do the smart thing, while their opponents shoot themselves in the foot, which is nothing

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  • maplesaga@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nintendo is terrible as well, they dont even let people stream their games last I heard.

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• IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This would be so cool with a shotgun barrel in my mouth and the trigger pulled!!!

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Phil Spencer probably didn’t approved of this and got shitcanned.

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• THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay so all 4 Series X consoles sold, including mine. I won’t use it, so that leaves 3 possibilities left.

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  • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I sold mine last week, so those numbers are off a little.

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  • Pholous@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here’s the neat thing: You will have to. :)

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    • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s what Microslop thinks.

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• Janx@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I never thought I would say this about Cortana, but… gross. Nobody wants this, Microslop!

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• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For what…

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• darkstar@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck. Off.

  That’s all I have to say about AI

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• VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• MinoriMirariRProductions@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  🐸

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