Razer introduces Project Ava, an AI assistant designed to act as an 'ultimate AI esports coach' and 'all-knowing AI game guide'. Ava monitors gameplay and provides real-time vocal hints, drawing from community knowledge and game data. While intended to enhance the gaming experience, Ava raises questions about the line between assistance and cheating.
was going to be chock full of AI, didn't we? So it's not too surprising that we're seeing it rammed into every proverbial nook and cranny, even those that surely nobody could want." is one such AI implementation that, at first glance, boggles and baffles. That's because it's essentially a backseat gamer, and it seems Razer might have missed the memo that"backseat gamer" is usually a derogatory term.
At the very least, Project Ava raises questions about where we want to draw the boundary between simple assistance and cheating. After all, one can have a build guide up to read while playing, and we usually consider that to be fine. Does that assessment change if we have a bot vocally telling us what to buy and where to go?Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
There's also the fact that, while we found Project Ava worked well in Razer's demo, it does seem to pull game guide data straight from the net for reference. Which is fine, I suppose, as those guides are public, but it brings up the same old"Should AI be able to repackage human-made content?" debates we're all already used to.
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