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

7 months ago by simple to c/games

"We will continue to bring it to more services that players are playing"

adding AI to everything will continue until morale improves

CaptainBasculin 158 points 7 months ago

why

literally give me one reason why this should exist

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danglybits27 156 points 7 months 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 46 points 7 months ago

Come on, Satya’s bonus depends on it!

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tal 13 points 7 months 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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jtrek 29 points 7 months ago

I just use my phone to look stuff up if I'm on my steam deck.

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altkey 3 points 7 months 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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FartMaster69 2 points 7 months ago

If they just moderate the fucking platform people pay for user created guides aren’t a problem.

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riquisimo 1 point 7 months 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 1 point 7 months 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 3 points 7 months ago

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

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Earthman_Jim 3 points 7 months ago

They've 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 -9 points 7 months 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 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.

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Couldbealeotard 19 points 7 months 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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yermaw 6 points 7 months ago

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

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FartMaster69 5 points 7 months ago

In what way would the AI help

Like, what specific thing would it do?

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altkey 0 points 7 months ago

In a Hello Google kind of way, I guess. Creating a summary of existing web pages, hoping it would be somehow correct.

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FartMaster69 2 points 7 months ago

Why not just.. use Google?

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Katana314 83 points 7 months ago

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

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mrfriki 45 points 7 months 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 3 points 7 months ago

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

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Robaque 2 points 7 months ago

Monetised altruism <3

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Assassassin 59 points 7 months ago

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

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rtxn 32 points 7 months ago

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

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Lost_My_Mind 11 points 7 months ago

I had no idea Mr Clean has a choking fetish...

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bequirtle 21 points 7 months 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 14 points 7 months ago

Data miners. Mining minors.

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CIA_chatbot 13 points 7 months ago

I mean, MS does support Trump

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slaacaa 12 points 7 months ago

You know the one

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LostWanderer 54 points 7 months ago

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.

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nforminvasion 24 points 7 months ago

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

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pinball_wizard 2 points 7 months ago
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Scotty_Trees 0 points 7 months ago

nuerolinks forced on every single person? lol okay, that's enough internet for today...

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undeffeined 0 points 7 months ago

Pax Judeica

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devolution 13 points 7 months ago

Microslop has always failed upwards.

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pinball_wizard 2 points 7 months ago

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.

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BCsven 6 points 7 months ago

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.

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random_character_a 11 points 7 months ago

Microslop trying to ease the comming AI bubble crash by forcing AI down our throat?

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goferking0 36 points 7 months 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 8 points 7 months 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 33 points 7 months ago

Exactly what your few remaining fans want.

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ParlimentOfDoom 30 points 7 months ago

What does that even mean?

Now I can ask copilot how best to insult someone's mom?

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NatakuNox 4 points 7 months ago

My copilot totally has a sexier voice than yours...

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Blackmist 26 points 7 months ago

A trillion dollars to reinvent cheat codes.

What a world.

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xvertigox 22 points 7 months ago
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P00ptart 22 points 7 months 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 8 points 7 months 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 4 points 7 months ago

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

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nutsack 2 points 7 months ago

I gave you $30 and you give me a goddamn puzzle to solve? how about you just kick me in the nuts instead

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FatVegan 1 point 7 months 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 1 point 7 months ago

Talos Principle be like

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bridgeburner 4 points 7 months 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 0 points 7 months ago

We're doomed, aren't we?

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A_Random_Idiot 1 point 7 months ago

I just wish the end would come already.

Tired of watching the goddamn preamble.

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glitzer_gadze 21 points 7 months ago

I don't need this Microslop

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De_Narm 16 points 7 months 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 the nose about everything and tend to present more tutorials than you will ever need.

And lastly, I just don't want to write stuff out on a console and neither do I want to wear some kind of microphone for my single player games.

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paraphrand 15 points 7 months ago

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.

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RightHandOfIkaros 14 points 7 months ago

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

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itkovian 15 points 7 months ago

No. But you can use it to get misinformation.

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The1TruePower 14 points 7 months ago

Growing old is watching all of your heroes die

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ILikeBoobies 10 points 7 months ago

Why was Microsoft ever your hero?

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janewaydidnothingwrong 12 points 7 months 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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Jax 4 points 7 months ago

Yes, though I think of them more as the times I unknowingly supported a company that was actively contributing to the death of digital literacy in the western world.

So, tomato potato — or whatever.

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PrettyFlyForAFatGuy 5 points 7 months ago

It's okay to look back fondly at the fun you had in childhood

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rafoix 2 points 7 months ago

Microsoft was always an infamous piece of shit corporation. Shitty unstable software that people needed because MS was a PC monopoly since the 1980s.

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The1TruePower 1 point 7 months 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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JoMiran 13 points 7 months 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 15 points 7 months 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 2 points 7 months ago

*all non-F2P multiplayer games

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apfelwoiSchoppen 12 points 7 months ago

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

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B0NK3RS 11 points 7 months ago

The Xbox dashboard is already a mess so I hope this doesn't make it even more shit. I know it will though.

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Valmond 10 points 7 months 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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brsrklf 10 points 7 months ago

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

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IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet 9 points 7 months ago

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

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THE_GR8_MIKE 8 points 7 months 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 2 points 7 months ago

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

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Pholous 1 point 7 months ago

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

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THE_GR8_MIKE 2 points 7 months ago

That's what Microslop thinks.

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blockheadjt 8 points 7 months 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 3 points 7 months ago

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

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Janx 7 points 7 months ago

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

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sturmblast 4 points 7 months ago

For what....

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darkstar 3 points 7 months ago

Fuck. Off.

That's all I have to say about AI

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VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt 2 points 7 months 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 1 point 7 months ago

🐸

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