Xbox Games Studios boss says artificial intelligence QA is his 'dream'

Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty has said it's his "dream" to turn to "transformational" AI and machine learning as an alternative to human QA testing. Booty dove into his desire for AI testers during his "Storytime With Matt Booty" panel during PAX West. He said QA testing has "not really kept up with how quickly we can make content," as reported by VGC (opens in new tab), and went on to compare changing something minor in a game as opposed to a movie. "If we're working on a movie and you come in and say'hey, this ending let's tighten this up, let's edit this, let's cut that scene,' it usually doesn't break anything at the beginning of the movie," he said. "But in a game you can be ready to ship and a designer's like'I've got this one little feature, I'm just going to change the colour on this one thing' and then it somehow blows up something and now the first 10 minutes of the game doesn't play. So that testing aspect, every single time anything new goes into a big game the whole game has to be tested, front-to-back, side-to-side."