[jdlshore]

What is/was Copilot on mobile and on XBox? I can’t keep track of all the different things Microsoft now calls “Copilot.”

It’s interesting that so many execs with a GenAI background are joining a gaming console division, and seemingly moving away from GenAI. Gamers are pretty hostile to GenAI, too.

Edit: As nhinck2 says below, all the new execs came with the new CEO from her CoreAI division. So maybe not so interesting after all.

[favorited]

It was supposed to be Copilot, with access to your Xbox account. So you could ask it things like "what achievements do I have in [game]?" It would also know what game you were playing, and answer questions like, "I'm stuck on [puzzle], give me a hint," etc.

The "on mobile" part was that it would be integrated into the Xbox mobile app.

(I say "supposed to be" because it was just a beta, and hadn't even made it to consoles yet – just PC and mobile.)

[crowcroft]

One turn away from 'Hey Copilot can you play my game for me'.

[flohofwoe]

Autoplay mode (non-AI based), isn't all that unusual for Asian MMOs, e.g. builtin farming bots to counter thirdparty farming bots.

[seg_lol]

Automating work in a work simulation game so you can relax.

[beAbU]

There used to be a whole industry centered around paying someone to farm gold on your WoW account.

[Tanoc]

Runescape as well. Gold farming for membership bonds severely stratified the game's economy and pushed people towards Oldschool Runescape. From the introduction of bonds until 2017 the number of bots raised at a rate unseen since the switchover to the new skilling menu in 2002.

[cma]

It doesn't sound too different than things like the Nintendo Power Hotline.

[Larrikin]

But this was replaced by Segasages/Gamefaqs. There are a lot of gamers now that will make a YouTube video about it. Seems like a replacement for no reason.

[DANmode]

That…might have actually been what they were missing, that usecase…

[mc32]

Where the other player asked the same thing so Copilot has to play against itself...

[beAbU]

This is such a solved problem though (from my experience). Usually googling the location/quest/puzzle name gets the result you are looking for first time. No need for copilot.

Maybe it's just the type of games I'm playing, for example "how to get nyrulna" in google gives me my answer in the first search result.

[dormento]

> Usually googling the location/quest/puzzle name gets the result you are looking for

Yeah but see they don't want you "googling" it. They want you "copiloting".

[3eb7988a1663]

I have never used it, but many games on Playstation offer a kind of Hint function accessible from within the platform.

[cryzinger]

I've used those occasionally and they seem to be a mix of official guides and user-submitted video clips, but it's not clear where the user-submitted clips come from.

[szszrk]

> What is/was Copilot on mobile and on XBox?

I'd love to explain!

On xbox mobile app you now have a copilot section. It's a chat. If you ask it for current price of something in the store, it will find outdated results from other stores on the internet. That's assuming the "send" button will work, mine often doesn't (it depends on keyboard you use somehow). But app will crash anyway so who cares.

Thank you for your attention.

[ahartmetz]

Feasting on their own dogfood, it seems

[nhinck2]

Well, one person moved and then brought a bunch of people with them.

[jdlshore]

Good point.

[sidewndr46]

isn't Copilot just whatever Microsoft needs it to be this week?

[shalmanese]

No, you’re thinking of .NET. Or maybe 365. Or perhaps you’re thinking of Live. Or maybe it was ActiveX.

[vrganj]

Isn't even MS Office Copilot now?

[szszrk]

There is no such thing as ms office any more. Please don't speak of him.

But also please don't try to find the new one with our search bar. Really, please don't.

[sidewndr46]

We don't talk about Cortana any longer. She's not welcome here.

[ahartmetz]

Remember the "Cloud to butt" browser extension? There could be a Copilot to super potato (etc) extension.

[sidewndr46]

seems like it'd be more appropriate to have an extension that replaced all microsoft product names with Copilot

[ahartmetz]

Nice idea. Microsoft Copilot for Copilot for Copilot.

[raffael_de]

> What is/was Copilot on mobile and on XBox? I can’t keep track of all the different things Microsoft now calls “Copilot.”

"Microsoft Xbox Copilot app"