Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has said the company plans to train its new gaming AI on a “catalogue of games” soon, so it can then “start playing them”.
Speaking on the Dwarkesh Patel podcast, Nadella described seeing Microsoft’s gaming AI Muse generate gameplay videos that reflected a user’s input as a “massive, massive moment of ‘wow'”.
Microsoft lifted the lid on Muse last week, and described the technology as something that would help game ideation and preservation – though not everyone was convinced.
In short, Muse has so far been trained based on years of gameplay footage from Ninja Theory’s arena shooter Bleeding Edge. After ingesting this gameplay archive, Muse can then generate new gameplay footage and estimate how it might change based on a specific prompt suggested by the user. For example, Muse could generate gameplay footage with an additional jump pad in the level, if commanded to do so.