Microsoft hopes Mico succeeds where Clippy failed as tech companies warily imbue AI with personality
Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time.
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Clippy made sense, was very likeable, and I enjoyed interacting with it as a child.
This featureless blob I find rather disgusting. A pure depiction of an era we live in, where the market thinks it's good enough to spew out "something" to cater the customers, and have the audacity to ask hard earned money for it.
Something in my brain immediately rejects any attempt to anthropomorphize LLMs.
A good quality to have.
Isn't that just a memberberry?