In this video, we take Microsoft’s Copilot for a spin and talk about gaming and AI influences, and the implications of that. We talked about a possible Metal Gear Solid V remaster, Deus Ex remaster, Hitman Blood-Money mission, and more. Imagine trying to talk gaming with non-gaming friends in real-life and after 5 seconds, they switch off and possibly yawn. Well, CoPilot isn’t like that, instead it’s like talking to a like-minded gaming fan who is totally on your level. The public version of CoPilot released in Feb 2023 and already it’s become almost indistinguishable from a real person.
You can tell it’s still in its infancy, but the tech is getting better all the time as you would expect. The fact that you can have this seamless conversation using your voice, and it talks back to you—okay, that’s nothing new—but no longer are we restricted to just using a keyboard and typing it in and doing all that. You can actually just have a natural, flowing conversation with your voice. What’s more, you can interrupt when it’s speaking without disruption to its response or flow of the conversation, and it will offer you suggestions, ideas of its own and be totally knowledgeable on the subject at hand.
But what are the implications of this? What happens when the chat becomes indistinguishable from a real human being? What are the connotations for kids, adults, anyone? You’ve got the ex Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying recently that perfect online personas can be very dangerous for children [and possibly adults]. You can become too attached to them, and we can see that. But we think that’s an excuse to distract from bad parenting. We posed this to CoPilot and it agreed and encouraged our suggestions about more parental controls and even AI controls to suggest users take a break, go outside or even have the power to terminate sessions.
We proposed this to CoPilot, and the AI agreed on some things. We said the AI should have those tools built in where it can tell you, “Oh, look, you’ve been chatting to me for 10 hours now. Can you just go outside and get a breather? Go and speak to a real human for a minute.” It should have those tools built within it to either shut itself down to stop you or to just keep pushing you to get out there and stop sitting at your computer.
It’s quite interesting stuff, so the future is very open right now. We’re not suggesting to ditch your real life friend, but should you have an interest that is not shared with others and you’d prefer the safety of not talking to online strangers, then CoPilot could be the gamer friend you didn’t know you needed. You can listen to our conversation in the video below. Quite fascinating stuff really.
