YOUR Xbox could soon make it impossible to swear on voice chat thanks to an auto-bleeping AI system.

Microsoft has revealed that its "ultimate vision" is to use artificial intelligence to detect and censor curse words or abuse spoken through gaming headsets.

2 Microsoft is working on AI systems to crack down on aggressive gamers Credit: Alamy

And if you spend too much time cursing, these AI systems could automatically mute you as a punishment.

"An ultimate goal could be similar to what you'd expect on broadcast TV where people are having a conversation, and in real time, we're able to detect a bad phrase and beep it out for users who don't want to see that," said Xbox Live's Rob Smith, speaking to The Verge.

Microsoft said it hoped to provide "filtration" across all types of Xbox Live content, to make Xbox a "safe, welcome and inclusive place to game".

2 Xbox is hoping to make the platform safer for younger gamers playing online Credit: Alamy

But getting these systems right is very difficult.

While humans can understand context easily, AI systems can often have a much harder time.

"Context is a really tricky thing in the gaming space," said Microsoft's Dave McCarthy.

"It's one thing to say you're going to go on a killing spree when you're getting ready for a multiplayer mission in Halo.

"And it's another, when it's uttered in another setting.

"Finding ways for us to understand context and nuance is a never-ending battle."

And it wouldn't just be limited to censoring swear words either.

Microsoft imagines a system one day where they can detect your overall "toxicity" in real-time – and penalise you for it.

"What we’ve started to experiment with is ‘Hey, if we’re real-time translating speech to text, and we’ve got these text filtering capabilities, what can we do in terms of blocking possible communications in a voice setting?’” McCarthy explained.

"It’s early days there, and there are a myriad of other AI and technology that we’re looking to stack around the voice problem, things like emotion detection and context detection that we can apply there.

Smith added: "We could do things like analysing a person’s speech and figuring out, overall, what’s their level of toxicity they’re using in this session?

"And maybe doing things like automatically muting them."

The firm is testing some of these systems internally, but has not given a release window for any of this technology.

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It doesn't have an official name yet - for now, Microsoft are still using the development code-name Project Scarlett

As with the next PlayStation, it's going to use super speedy 'solid state' storage to drastically reduce or even totally eliminate loading times

This means your games should start up almost instantly, and there won't be lengthy pauses between scenes, or when moving from one part of a game's world to another

It's going to be able to play older games too, with Microsoft making big promises about backwards compatibility

"Thousands of games across four console generations will look and play best on Project Scarlett," they say, referring to the original Xbox, the Xbox 360, the Xbox One and the new console

The third area where they matched Sony is the chips at the console's heart - the brains of Project Scarlett is the same AMD Navi technology at the heart of Sony's next console

It's not quite identical to the PlayStation chips, as both are custom-made for the companies in question

AMD promised Sony's "special sauce" was built into their chips, while Microsoft describe the core of their new box is a "custom-designed AMD processor"

Xbox boss Phil Spencer also revealed that processor would have hardware dedicated to ray-tracing

Ray-tracing is a new technology just making it into the most expensive gaming PCs that makes lighting and sound incredibly realistic by calculating the exact path of each ray of light or sound wave through transparent objects and off reflective surfaces

This gives you much more realistic lighting and reflections as well as much more natural looking materials and objects

Sony has confirmed the next PlayStation will have something similar, but hasn't revealed if the console will have hardware specifically dedicated to it

Finally, Microsoft also revealed that Halo: Infinite, which is first revealed at the same briefing last year, is going to launch with the new Xbox

The latest chapter in the story of Master Chief will release alongside Project Scarlett devices in time for "Holidays 2020", meaning around mid-November

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