Microsoft has been testing a brand new AI-powered Xbox chatbot, and now Xbox Insiders can attempt it out for the primary time. We solely revealed the existence of this new “Xbox Digital Assist Agent” earlier this 12 months, and Microsoft now says it's designed “to assist Xbox gamers extra effectively resolve their in-game help points.”
Xbox Insiders within the US can begin making an attempt out this new Xbox AI chatbot at help.xbox.com, and it’ll reply questions on Xbox console and sport help points. “We recognize suggestions from Xbox Insiders on this preview expertise, and any suggestions we obtain might be used to enhance Digital Assistant,” says Megha Dudani, senior product supervisor at Xbox.
This Xbox chatbot will seem as an AI character that animates when responding, or as a colourful Xbox orb. It's half of a bigger effort by Microsoft to use AI to its Xbox platform and companies, forward of AI-based options coming quickly to Xbox consoles.
In contrast to different components of Microsoft, Xbox has been cautious in the way it approaches AI options — regardless of CEO Satya Nadella's clear mandate to focus all of Microsoft's enterprise round AI. Microsoft has largely centered on the developer facet of AI instruments, however that is clearly altering with the introduction of a help chatbot.
We reported earlier this 12 months that Microsoft can be engaged on bringing AI options to sport content material creation, sport operations, and its Xbox platform and units. This contains experimenting with AI-generated artwork and supplies for video games, testing AI video games, and the generative AI NPCs that Microsoft has already developed in partnership with Inworld.