adding AI to everything will continue until morale improves
Growing old is watching all of your heroes die
This would be so cool with a shotgun barrel in my mouth and the trigger pulled!!!
Quick poll: did anyone ask for this? Any single person at all?
There’s one person. He is bald and has a very chokeable trachea.
What does that even mean?
Now I can ask copilot how best to insult someone’s mom?
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.
why
literally give me one reason why this should exist
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.
Come on, Satya’s bonus depends on it!
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.
I just use my phone to look stuff up if I’m on my steam deck.
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.
Fuck sakes, I bet I can’t turn automatic updates off / can’t play installed games without internet access…
This would make more sense if they didn’t idioticly rebrand from cortana, the AI from halo, to copilot
Can Microsoft play its own games for me so I don’t have to play them?
Exactly what your few remaining fans want.
Okay so all 4 Series X consoles sold, including mine. I won’t use it, so that leaves 3 possibilities left.
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.
