Microsoft is replacing human gamers (and even games) with AI

In the future, Microsoft suggests, you may be playing AI. No, not on the battlefield, but on games that actually use AI to simulate the entire game itself. As a first step, Microsoft has developed an AI model, called WHAM, that "beta tests" games early in the development cycle using AI instead of human players. Gamers know that realistic AI can turn a good game into something great, like how the older F.E.A.R. games would realistically model how soldiers might react to a hostile, armed player. Microsoft's World and Human Action Model (WHAM) takes the opposite approach -- it tries to figure out how human players will react in a given situation, right down to a specific frame or setup within the existing game world.