Also Xbox has the new wraps coming next week.
Obviously these are meant to appeal to Call of Duty fans like my 8 year old son who’s getting one for his birthday to match his camouflage controller and the new Modern Warefare 3 game as well.
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Yeah I always go back to the PC version.
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https://x.com/hazzadorgamin/status/1721370024198451428?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
Someone here asked when Xbox version. There’s your answer.
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https://x.com/hazzadorgamin/status/1721496090657349867?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
“I know how to solve the closing issue! By leaving!”
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Xbox, please save CD and EM, at least!
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https://twitter.com/HazzadorGamin/status/1721544393923105036
https://twitter.com/HazzadorGamin/status/1721545296386339322
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https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1721544159356477671
First step towards AI and Xbox
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https://x.com/idlesloth84_/status/1721551103987196233?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
Blink twice if IGN has you at gunpoint.
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This has enormous potential, but it’s quite a double-edged sword. It’s another cudgel that can be used to bang on about how joyless and soulless Xbox are, but that’s par for the course.
The big issue with AI is quality control. Too many people think you can just slap a prompt into it and it’ll spit out something fully-realized when it requires proof-reading and editing. I don’t expect MS to have this issue, naturally. This isn’t some fly-by-night operation and you don’t pour that many resources into AI without knowing how to utilize it. The NPC video is interesting but it’s clearly not ready for prime-time and there isn’t any mandate about using the tools, according to the article.
What concerns me is the impact on jobs. I’m hoping that this turns out to be more of a display of the tools they have at their disposal and that it doesn’t snowball into something more unpleasant. I’d feel a lot better if there were more unionization in the industry and thankfully it seems like the wind is changing there. Regardless, it’s too early to say anything (and yet I managed to say so much)
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Jobs are always at risk when new tech comes along, it can’t be stopped but what usually happens is old jobs get replaced by new jobs, the AI that gets created by devs is still going to be needed to created, implemented and expanded upon by artists, engineers, programmers etc
There are definitely safeguards and whatnot that need to be put in place but people that are on the "AI bad and must be stopped "train are on a losing battle, it like trying to stop computers from taking off because they only knew how to use a pen and paper
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Personally I can’t wait until AI dramatically impacts the media. I’d like to have it automatically fact-check and stamp an article as containing facts. Also an analysis stamped on everything regarding whether it is biased would be welcome.
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2023 layoffs aside (that was more Wallstreet) software and gaming is understaffed. Requirements always outpace capabilities. This didnt change in the last 40 years of software development and i don’t see it changing in the future. IDEs didnt make software developers obsolete, visual scripting didnt make software developers obsolete, Intellisense didnt make software developers obsolete and Copilot doesn’t make software developers obsolete. It just make them more efficient and changes the workflow.
And i remember the time when VBA was sold as “you don’t need software developers any more”, lol.
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I did make it a point to say that a human element was necessary to make AI creations palatable. What I’m worried about is the disconnect between the actual creatives and the bean counters who are penny wise but pound foolish. The people who look at numbers and end up saying " why do we need THIS many writers on staff when we’re also paying a fortune in licenses to generative AI?"
We’ve just seen an incredibly boneheaded move from Microsoft with Brazil. I can easily envision a future tweet from (for the sake of argument) Josh Sawyer, saying he resigned because half of his team got cut.
That’s what I meant by double edged sword.
Edit: lot of great discussion to be had here but I’m literally waking into work and can’t continue, please stand by =) @AllianceOfficer not to be a dick but I don’t think it’s wise to rely on AI for factual verification, that’s a genuinely dangerous avenue.
Edit 2: ducked into the bathroom to clarify the above lol. AI as we use it now is essentially the same thing as predictive text. There’s no intelligence there, it just uses its data to give you what is supposed to be the best answer. The dangerous part is that it very blithely makes assertions, I’ve already heard of examples of some of them making up scientific studies.
The internet is full of lies and bots, if the data are tainted by ignorance or bad actors, the AI can’t reason enough to tell you that its suggestion of putting out a fire with oil is unreasonable, it’ll just confidently say it. Yes, that mushroom is edible, yes this is a legitimate book, no this corporation doesn’t enagage in slavery, no that government doesn’t have any dissidents.
It’s possible we’ll get to a point where it’s possible to trust an AI in that way but I don’t think I’ll ever feel comfortable with it. That said, when I was a kid, you needed to go to a landline and remember a phone number to contact someone so…
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While the result is unknown, I applaud Xbox to try something that actually reads “Next-gen.”
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If true at all, I guess this is the one that was rumored already two years ago now?
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There has to be its own cycle trend like Sonic Cycle. When there’s bad news from Sony, time to whip out a rumor that will rule them all.
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If it’s true I’m guessing it was negotiated well before Elden Ring because it seems dumb to make exclusives after monster hits like that
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