With over three billion players in the world, AI is poised to transform the landscape of gaming experiences and the games industry itself. Microsoft’s vision for gaming is a world where players are empowered to play the games they want, with the people they want, whenever they want, where-ever they are, and on any device. In close collaboration with the Xbox Gaming division, we drive towards this transformation through world-leading machine learning research.

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Collaborators: Gaming AI with Haiyan Zhang 

For over a decade, Xbox has been leveraging AI to elevate gaming. Haiyan Zhang, GM of Gaming AI, explores the collaborations behind the work and the potential for generative AI to support better experiences for both players and game creators.

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Using generative AI to imitate human behavior 

Diffusion models have been used to generate photorealistic images and short videos, compose music, and synthesize speech. In a new paper, Microsoft Researchers explore how they can be used to imitate human behavior in interactive environments.

Best Paper Award at AAMAS 2023 

Best Paper Award at the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems for “Trust Region Bounds for Decentralized PPO Under Non-stationarity» by Mingfei Sun, Sam Devlin, Jacob Beck, Katja Hofmann and Shimon Whiteson