Microsoft Corp. unveiled artificial intelligence tools that can create video-game scenes that would normally have to be programmed and animated by a human, a model it built using data collected from Xbox gamers and their controllers.

Using AI to produce footage of video games with a consistent world and rules could prove useful to game designers

Microsoft Research and Ninja Theory teamed up to build Muse, a generative AI model capable of generating gameplay.

Microsoft debuted Muse, a generative AI model that can be trained to output video game visuals and predict controller inputs. The company describes the technology as the future of gameplay ideation, not as something to be used in place of human creativity during game development.

In a new blog post on Wednesday, Microsoft’s research department debuted a new generative AI model called Muse that it describes as a “breakthrough” for gameplay ideation.

We are implicitly empowering a class of people who own these tools and don’t give a fuck about how they reshape our lives.”