An application for Alexa could be just the right thing for those looking to improve their gaming skills -- or your worst nightmare, depending on your stance on personal privacy and predictive novels like 1984. The Call of Duty Skill app is currently in beta and is designed to help you get better at Call of Duty by giving you a rundown of how you did last match and potentially offering pointers on how you can improve.
The app is entirely voice-controlled, as you might expect from an Alexa assistance app and will let you ask questions like, "Alexa, what are my multiplayer stats?" Or, "How am I doing on X active challenge?" Or, "What's new in the Call of Duty World?" All of those questions (and more) will give you a response based on your current account level, recent play times, stats and information.
Beyond raw statistics though, there is a measure of advice that can be offered too. As PCGamesN highlights, the app can also offer recommendations on your equipment loadout for your class, strategies for the particular game mode your playing and additional ideas for how to get better at the game. There are said to be 20 different gameplay factors it can make recommendations on, so it could well be that the Alexa app will have a positive effect on your gameplay ability, by providing gentle coaching from the sidelines. We can't vouch for the veracity of its advice, but it will be there if you ask for it.
Chances are this is just the beginning though. Considering we've seen self-teaching AI begin to dominate human players in all sorts of games in recent years, it won't be long before they can trounce us at FPS too and when they do, expect Ai assistants and coaches to become much more common in the future.
