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Microsoft's Nadella reckons Xbox will have "catalog" of gen AI games

Microsoft's Nadella reckons Xbox will have "catalog" of gen AI games

The CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, has said that he believes that the company will soon have a whole "catalog" of games made using generative AI. 

Speaking on the Dwarkesh Podcastas reported by VGC – the exec discussed the firm's new Muse generative AI model, which can be used to create "game visuals [and/or] controller actions", adding that the company had plans to use this tech in its own games.  

“It’s just very cool… one thing that we wanted to go after was, using gameplay data, can you actually generate games that are both consistent and then have the ability to generate the diversity of what that game represents and then are persistent to user mods, right? So that’s what this is,” Nadella said.

“The cool thing is what I’m excited about is bringing… we’re going to have a catalog of games soon that we will start using these models, or we’re going to train these models to generate, and then start playing them.

“In fact, when Phil Spencer first showed it to me, where 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.

“And that to me is a massive, massive moment of, ‘wow’. It’s kind of like the first time we saw ChatGPT complete sentences or Dolly draw or Sora, this is kind of one such moment.”


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