Former AI guy’s job is to figure out how to make AI make video games, and in the meantime, figure out how to cram AI data scraping into absolutely every possible element of … whatever Xbox Live is called now.
The first will almost certainly fail, the second is much easier and will make the division more profitable untill it gets axxed after the first thing totally fails.
EDIT:
Erp, its AI gal, not AI guy.
Asha Sharma.
But… her recent LinkedIn history outside of MSFT is:
Board Member of Home Depot (ongoing)
Board Member of Coupang (ongoing)
(A Fortune 200 tech platform and South Korea’s largest e commerce company)
COO of Instacart (2021-2024)
Headed up, among other things, data science.
She was also apparently a VP at Meta/Facebook, before that.
Oh hey, I’ve done data analytics, I’ve done data science!
I’ve even also done lower level grunt work at MSFT!
Yeah I am 100% certain of the second part of my guess now.
Less certain about the first part, as she has literally no background with game development, as far as I can tell.
IMO, she is absolutely going to be put in charge of squeezing every last possible drop out of Xbox, which MSFT will most likely just transition to being basically a publisher only/primarily, given how many big IPs they own…
…and they’ll probably switch over to a new person after there’s basically nothing left to squeeze, after they’ve essentially functionally randomly fired at least 50% of the people working for the studios they now own, and essentially randomly reorganized the remainder of those people into different or new studios, see Ubisoft.
“Best” case scenario, after the AI bubble pops, she manages to figure out some kind of partner ship with either Nvidia or some remaining firm that has a bunch of AI datacenter GPUs, and then we get Xbox’s attempt at Google Stadia.
My guess?
Former AI guy’s job is to figure out how to make AI make video games, and in the meantime, figure out how to cram AI data scraping into absolutely every possible element of … whatever Xbox Live is called now.
The first will almost certainly fail, the second is much easier and will make the division more profitable untill it gets axxed after the first thing totally fails.
EDIT:
Erp, its AI gal, not AI guy.
Asha Sharma.
But… her recent LinkedIn history outside of MSFT is:
Board Member of Home Depot (ongoing)
Board Member of Coupang (ongoing)
(A Fortune 200 tech platform and South Korea’s largest e commerce company)
COO of Instacart (2021-2024)
Headed up, among other things, data science.
She was also apparently a VP at Meta/Facebook, before that.
Oh hey, I’ve done data analytics, I’ve done data science!
I’ve even also done lower level grunt work at MSFT!
Yeah I am 100% certain of the second part of my guess now.
Less certain about the first part, as she has literally no background with game development, as far as I can tell.
IMO, she is absolutely going to be put in charge of squeezing every last possible drop out of Xbox, which MSFT will most likely just transition to being basically a publisher only/primarily, given how many big IPs they own…
…and they’ll probably switch over to a new person after there’s basically nothing left to squeeze, after they’ve essentially functionally randomly fired at least 50% of the people working for the studios they now own, and essentially randomly reorganized the remainder of those people into different or new studios, see Ubisoft.
“Best” case scenario, after the AI bubble pops, she manages to figure out some kind of partner ship with either Nvidia or some remaining firm that has a bunch of AI datacenter GPUs, and then we get Xbox’s attempt at Google Stadia.