The resume notification provides the user with an option to discontinue use of the auto-play mode and resume gameplay in active play mode.”
A recently published patent from Sony has revealed that the company is considering introducing a method to let your games play themselves.
According to the patent’s description, “the auto-play mode uses data from the user play model to automatically play the AGC for the user using a gameplay style that simulates a gameplay style of the user.”
A lot of these kinds of patents never actually end up being used, though, like this other patent from Sony that suggests you could turn a banana (or anything else) into a controller.