Prior art: I remember a long time ago seeing a video of a Barney (as in purple dinosaur) video game for little kids that would just start playing itself if you didn't touch the controller for a while. It was a side scroller, probably NES/SNES/Genesis.
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Wasn't there a similar shit patent headline about sony doing that?
Oh yeah, there was, "ghost assistance", aka "no need to look up on youtube"; something which I'm pretty sure exists as "previous art" in some game or another - https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sony-patents-ai-generated-ghost-support-system-to-assist-stuck-players
Also, bots that automate play have existed since the old MUD days, this patent must be like the many that are "something that already exists, but ~~on a computer~~ with AI"
One of the mario games would have Luigi show up and play a level for you if you kept dying
Do you know which one? I would love to see that xD
Apparently it's Mario Maker 2.. so technically a Mario game, but it's not "official" Mario levels, so take that as you will
So, basically a movie?
Feed it Ski Free.
That stupid jumpy bear can gargle my balls.
Can we just hire someone to play the game for us so we can watch? LOL JK. That would be bat-twitch CRAAAAAYZY.
Im one of those people who will totally watch someone else play a game.
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Eh... Folks used to pay people to level up their characters in WoW....
That's what I was thinking this would be used for. Leveling MMO characters, or grinding gold.
Swordsman had an bot where you would let it take control while it farmed an area around where you let it.
How would the assistant "proceed to chat and guide the user through the process of acquiring the gem", if it already took "control from the player"? 🤔
So essentially laying the groundwork to microtransactions for video game guides?
Yoda voice: Begun the AI Patent wars have.
So when everyone speaks about a game and it's scenes, you will be "the what?".
Microcheaters
Cheater mode
!fuckai@lemmy.world
If it hallucinates and is wrong and wastes my time, I get compensation, correct?
Good. No-one else can use it now.
Oh man if it could just earn all the accomplishments for me, that'd be sweet. /s