I hope we can get some (ideally local) version of this we can use as a "gaming minion". There's a lot of games where I probably would have played more if I could delegate the grind. If they're not that competent, it adds to the fun a little even.
If the game needs to perform grind yourself, without delegating it (think Albion Online, Eve Online, Black Desert Online, Path of Exile etc. basically every MMO with economy), it means it's actively part of the game design, and delegating it to a robot is just cheating (and against the ToS in all of those cases)
So the point of GP's post, which I agree with, is that if that kind of grind is not part of the fun for you, then the game wasn't designed for you (and please don't cheat because you ruin other's fun)
Sorry if it was unclear, but I want something that can act like a dumb co-op partner for games obviously balanced around co-op play so I can have fun playing the game. I've run into a few games like that and I end up dropping them when solo play is too tedious.
"Wow! I could've sworn I was really playing virtual Skeeball!"
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In practice I think you would lose interest very quickly in any game should you do so. Games are carefully designed to balance the drudgery with action, and to control the complexity progression. Using AI would break both.
The only issue I ran into was that it was blind and would keep going so I'd look away from the screen and when I came back I had fallen into a pit of monsters or something.