Microsoft is now seemingly fully ready to start trying to push its Copilot gaming AI ontoXboxplayers.
The beta for Gaming Copilot, what they call the “ultimate gaming sidekick” in theblog postfor the announcement (viaPC Gamer), is now live for Xbox Insiders, intended to serve asa sort of AI-driven in-game guide.
The idea seems to be that it will only come up when the player specifically wants it. It has been available for insidersthrough the Xbox mobile appsince April, but now, it’ll be integrated directly into the Xbox app on PC, accessible through the Game Bar.
What Is It Supposed To Do?
The stated purpose of Gaming Copilot is “helping you get to gameplay faster, sharpening your skills, and being there when you need it and out of the way when you don’t.”
In other words, it’s trying to replace game guides written by humans by providing an experience that is supposedly more “personalized” and tailored specifically to individual users, since this new PC version can take screenshots of your gameplay and analyze them for greater context about your queries, which can be made via either text or voice.
Members of the Xbox Insider program who participate in the Gaming Copilot beta will also be tasked with helping improve its accuracy by flagging its incorrect responses.
That will be crucial to its success, given how LLMs like Copilot have a tendency for hallucination and there’s a decent chance that any advice it gives will be wrong, because it can’t actually know anything about whatever game you’re playing.
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Even 10-year-old games and DLCs are said to be getting updates.
That will always be something thathuman-written guideshave over advice from an AI; a human can actually understand a game and know what needs to be done in any given situation, while an AI can only fake it by trying to replicate what people have already written.
The Xbox blog post also suggests that Copilot will be even more integrated intothe upcoming ROG Xbox Ally and Ally Xfrom ASUS, as the algorithm is undergoing “further optimizations” in preparation for the launch of the handhelds, and probably other platforms going forward.
This is just another sign ofMicrosoft going all-in on AI, evenat the expense of its own employees.
Is this whatall those people were laid offfor? Personally, I’ll always favor real, human-written guides over whatever some AI tells me, and I trust my own ability to find information enough to personalize my own experience.
