Microsoft’s plans for its new Muse AI technology for video games appears to be ready to move into full gear. In a recent interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that the company is getting ready to start training its new AI system on a “catalog of games”.
Speaking on the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast—h/t to Eurogamer—Nadella says that the plan is to train the AI system on games so that it can actually start playing them.
“When Phil Spencer first showed it to me, he had an Xbox controller and this model basically took the input and generated the output based on the input. And it was consistent with the game,” Nadella said.
“That to me is a massive, massive moment of ‘wow’. It’s kind of like the first time we saw ChatGPT complete sentences, or Dall-E draw, or Sora. This is one such moment.”
As far as how this ability and training will help with game development and gamers, in general, Nadella didn’t go into any specifics.
According to Microsoft’s announcement of Muse, not only does it have the potential to assist with game development and accessibility, but it could help with game preservation as well.
The idea of AI in gaming continues to be a much discussed topic. Recently, Steam users began requesting the ability to filter out games that use generative AI. Even CEO’s have gotten in on the topic with Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick believing that there’s truly no such thing as “artificial intelligence”.
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