Today's Word Is Agent

Today's word is agent. Professor Wobble: an agent is a computer program that does a job itself. Bitsy: like what? Writing code, says Xbox's boss; next, she thinks, games. Pip: 72 billion hours of Xbox a year, five times the time spent coding, by her count. Mort: she also says it's hard to predict the future of gaming. Brought to you by the word agent.

Xbox's boss argues that games are the next job for AI agents after coding, because like code they can be written, run and tested, and people spend more than 72 billion hours a year playing Xbox games, about five times the time spent writing code; the fan ports that prompted her memo run in browsers through WebGPU, which she says is near 90% browser support, and the new lab is led by Xbox's chief technology officer.

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