Haiyan
General Manager of AI Innovation Science and Gaming at Xbox, responsible for research and development in the direction of combining AI innovation with gaming at Xbox.
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Haiyan, General Manager of AI Innovation Science and Gaming at Xbox, said that over the past month or two the leaps in model capability have concentrated on multi-step planning and reasoning, and developers can now give an agent a complete end-to-end task, forming a closed loop.
The three executives Haiyan, Ryan Valenza and Francis agreed that agentic AI will not make professional teams unnecessary for game development, but the way professional expertise is applied will change.
Haiyan proposed that agentic tools raise the floor, letting simpler systems and smaller teams build things, but creative people can raise the bar higher.
Haiyan believes the purpose of personalization should be to open up options rather than lock players into efficient but uninteresting paths, and that AI should help preserve the "delightful moments of serendipity" in games.
Haiyan listed three directions that excite her: using AI to help players get through the onboarding period of complex games; procedural events and games that build themselves based on player history; and AI games as an emerging genre, with AI Dungeon and AI Town already proving players' interest in AI characteristics.
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Haiyan, General Manager of AI Innovation Science and Gaming at Xbox, said that over the past month or two the leaps in model capability have concentrated on multi-step planning and reasoning, and developers can now give an agent a complete end-to-end task, forming a closed loop.
50%UnverifiedThe three executives Haiyan, Ryan Valenza and Francis agreed that agentic AI will not make professional teams unnecessary for game development, but the way professional expertise is applied will change.
50%UnverifiedHaiyan proposed that agentic tools raise the floor, letting simpler systems and smaller teams build things, but creative people can raise the bar higher.
50%UnverifiedHaiyan believes the purpose of personalization should be to open up options rather than lock players into efficient but uninteresting paths, and that AI should help preserve the "delightful moments of serendipity" in games.
50%UnverifiedHaiyan listed three directions that excite her: using AI to help players get through the onboarding period of complex games; procedural events and games that build themselves based on player history; and AI games as an emerging genre, with AI Dungeon and AI Town already proving players' interest in AI characteristics.
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