TL;DR
- Copilot will soon help guide players within Minecraft.
- At the Surface event, Microsoft showed off a demo of AI working in games.
- AI will be able to review gameplay and provide helpful hints to players using natural language.
Copilot, Microsoft's competitor to Google Gemini, is ready to appear in video games. The company showed off a very interesting demo of the AI that assists players within Minecraft. In it, the player and co-pilot can be heard communicating in natural language. The player asks the co-pilot for advice on how to make a sword, and the AI instructs the player to open their inventory and assists them in selecting items that can be used to create the sword. It will also notify players about missing materials from their inventory. Super cool!
Copilot's real-time conversation capabilities are powered by OpenAI's latest GPT-4o model. This allows copilots to hear, speak to, and assist players as they play the game. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman calls it a “magical experience” that is “smart, intuitive, natural, and useful.”
Microsoft didn't say whether it plans to bring Copilot to other Xbox or PC games in the future, but it certainly seems like a possibility. If this concept takes off, game guides available online and the platforms that publish them could soon become a thing of the past. It remains to be seen how precisely the AI will be able to guide gameplay and how the developers will deal with his AI's hallucinations.
