Copilot: "That's a great question! XxX_420694ever_XxX's race is "pounding" and sexual orientation is "yo mama", would you like to see this player's achievements?"

Reading old game reviews or game development blogs and books where AI was just pathfinding and decision trees is something special.

If the new Marathon makes AI the heroes instead of the villains I’m gonna be so mad.

This would not benefit me one iota

I'm currently playing No Mans Sky and the game throws so many random items your way without any indication as to what it's used for. I have containers upon containers full of things I've never used because I have no idea where or when to use them. I could google and end up in a fandom wiki where I'll get wrong information because the page is missing information about the last X updates that have changed what the thing does. In that scenario I could absolutely see a use case for gaming AI where I don't have to waste my time getting the wrong information as the AI can instantly tell me that wrong information.

But more realistically I could also see AI being used to help people get from nothing to a meta build, because most games that have meta builds have guides only for what the meta build is and no explanation how to get to the meta build or what parts of the meta build are important. That's why you see people blindly imitating meta builds and then getting absolutely obliterated because they have no idea why the meta is meta. AI could fill in those blanks while playing the game. I guess it could even be abstracted to just helping follow the meta meta. Like for instance in CS2 if you're an average player and you have no idea how the rounds flow the AI could tell you "the opposing team has X economy, buy Y and be aware of Z", which technically isn't cheating as it's just game knowledge, but IMO it's borderline cheating.

I could come up with ideas how AI could be used by the average gamer, but all those ideas kinda expect AI to be actually useful and I'm not sold on AI being that useful.

Bring back clippy have it appear when you’re stuck on something “looks like you’re stuck on this puzzle. Want me to lower the difficulty for you cause you’re bad at this game?”

Probably will be pretty useful for disabled gamers. I know a quadriplegic that plays games and this would be a godsend for him.

I mean yes and no. It will be great when it's not crammed down our throats but also not so great when the economy collapses under the realization that they've been investing hundreds of billions of dollars in an industry that will never ROI.

Microsoft rolled out an AI chatbot for minecraft a few weeks ago and it is completely useless (unless you are asking about the marketplace). I feel like you won't even need to be playing a niche game for it to hallucinate.

These features get built because Microsoft and other tech companies evaluate staff on “AI use” and building AI features.

That means everyone has to build AI shit or get put on a PIP.

I tried WoW for the first time a few months ago. I was hanging in voice chat with perplexity live mode, asking it about the meta, to give me estimations on gearing up (both money and time) and to give me extra lore context and information about pricing, content per expansion and so on.

I also used it to get instant summaries and info in arena breakout, and help me regain context when I've stopped playing a game for a while (I have to do X quest now, what has happened?).

I'm not going to use this specific thing from microsoft, but LLM are incredible tools for interfacing with non structured data through natural language. The AI assistants are going to be huge.