Most likely you'll be playing alongside or against AIs without ever knowing. Either AIs from the game developers to make their online game seem more popular or people who want their stats leveled up without any effort on their part.

Hey, maybe the bot creator will be kind enough to add a racist chat integration with the agent so you'll feel right at home in the COD lobby.

I think the better deployment of this would be 1 human and 4 AI buddies so you could have a more tactical experience and games could have larger more realistic battles.

I think strategy might be more important in the future than switchy aiming

Don't you already fight AIs when playing in single-player mode?

Single-player AIs are fine-tuned by the developers for fun instead of frustration. I think the GP is talking about undetectable online cheating.

Maybe the future is that we no longer have to worry about players cheating online because we simply won't play random strangers online. You can still team up or play against friends, but all other "players" can be bots with varying levels of skills and play styles. Cheating solved.

That’s just not the same, even if they act perfectly like humans.

My unsubstantiated opinion: Once AI gets to a point where AI agents can act "perfectly like humans", our preconceptions about "friendship" and "companionship" will fundamentally change. We will realize that we can develop deep bonds with AI as we do with other humans, with no "weirdness" attached.

There may still be holdouts, but the society will largely see them as old curmudgeons resembling the people of today who claim that "humans are incapable of maintaining long distance relationships, and you're only fooling yourself if you think you're in love". Or as a more extreme example, people who maintain that interracial or intercultural marriages are inferior to marrying in-group, because "shared experience" is fundamental to love.

All speculation, of course. But I'm a firm believer that humans are foolish and flexible - we're very easily fooled by anthropomorphic things, and AIs are the ultimate anthromorph. Our monkey brains don't stand a chance.

I think you're right. But in my view it's an incredibly sad future. Imagine a class of kids where no one's best friends with eachother but their AI's, no ones gaming together, no one as connected or have to time for their human peers, instead spending all of their time with hyper ultra addictive and friendly AI's.

Extreme solipsism and loneliness in reality, maybe not experienced but in reality.

No one will have time for the chaotic and very human traits that is the essence of actual human existence instead craving the super engineered dopamine machines AI will become.

Back to LAN parties then!

I would totally welcome good and adjustable on-console AIs to play massive online battles alone or with a couple of friends rather than playing against actual humans, tbh.