Might as well watch youtube for free

Elon will love this

What's the point of gaming with this?

First pay for the game, then pay for slop shit so you don't have to play the game. Corporate big brain time at its best 😄

I do play some video games and I guess this is nice, but what I really enjoy is listening to music. When am I gonna get an AI helper to listen to songs for me so I can get that done in peaceful silence instead?

Why even bother living. Just get "AI" to live for you, and recycle your meaningless meat form.

Who even wants this?

The other thing the helps people get unstuck in games is good game design. 🙃

I suppose this is just the equivalent of reading a game guide that someone has written, but this feels like it could remove too much friction. Are you playing the game if everything just becomes a tutorial?

i hope they sit on the patent to prevent other devs in implementating AI assistants in their games.

A STRANGE GAME.

THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS

NOT TO PLAY.

I mean... Use the developers console or a cheat if you're stuck with something and want to continue playing, or just quit the game. There's no need for an AI to do this.

Wake up, babe - the stupid ass patent wars are back again, AI edition.

My biggest fear with this is an arms race between puzzle developers and these solvers. I hope devs never design their games with the expectation that players will use AI

Ain't this just botting?

They don't just want the machines to create the art and music for us, they want them to consume it for us too, so that we'll have more time to slave away at our jobs.

So, basically a movie?

Clearly they think that gaming is the same as working.

Then they tell publishers and game developers that more players finish their games on Microsoft’s platform than any others!

Feed it Ski Free.

How would the assistant "proceed to chat and guide the user through the process of acquiring the gem", if it already took "control from the player"? 🤔

This sounds like the ironically good version of the Nemesis System patent - no AI helpers in non-Microslop games for the next 20 years.

New Xbox controller just leaked

Prior art: I remember a long time ago seeing a video of a Barney (as in purple dinosaur) video game for little kids that would just start playing itself if you didn't touch the controller for a while. It was a side scroller, probably NES/SNES/Genesis.

Wasn't there a similar shit patent headline about sony doing that?

Oh yeah, there was, "ghost assistance", aka "no need to look up on youtube"; something which I'm pretty sure exists as "previous art" in some game or another - https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sony-patents-ai-generated-ghost-support-system-to-assist-stuck-players

Also, bots that automate play have existed since the old MUD days, this patent must be like the many that are "something that already exists, but on a computer with AI"

So when everyone speaks about a game and it's scenes, you will be "the what?".

Cheater mode

Microcheaters

Good. No-one else can use it now.

!fuckai@lemmy.world

If it hallucinates and is wrong and wastes my time, I get compensation, correct?

Yoda voice: Begun the AI Patent wars have.

Eh... Folks used to pay people to level up their characters in WoW....

Im definately contrarian here. I like games but some aspects a hate. I would totally give over to a helper for platforming and all sorts of stuff I hate. Heck I like things like the ff12 gambit system. I love rpgs because I like to setup and build and see how it goes.

Tbh I wouldn't mind this, I hate boss fights in games, I would definitely let the AI do those, and switch back to me for the stuff I enjoy :D

Edit: Though as another commenter said below, a skip button would achieve the same, no need for an LLM if that's what they mean by "AI".