Three Decades After Clippy, Microsoft Launches Mico (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/23/1734227/three-decades-after-clippy-microsoft-launches-mico
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/804106/microsoft-mico-copilot-ai-assistant-clippy
The assistant draws on a new memory feature inside Copilot to recall facts about users and their work. Mico will be available in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada at launch. Microsoft is also adding a Learn Live mode that transforms the character into a Socratic tutor using interactive whiteboards and visual cues. The initiative is part of an effort to give Copilot a permanent identity. Jacob Andreou, corporate vice president of product and growth at Microsoft AI, said: "Clippy walked so that we could run."
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/804106/microsoft-mico-copilot-ai-assistant-clippy
give Copilot a permanent identity (Score:2)
It has one Clippy!
Fitting (Score:3)
Like the name for a mushroom or fungus?
Or did they just regress to a 4-year-old trying to pronounce microsoft?
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Makes me feel like I'm in kindergarten. Hard pass.
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My guess is that one person with power thought "My Co(pilot)" and then did not think any further.
The rest is arrogance.
First thing mico morphs into looks like (Score:2)
The Devil, because that is not a cat. Is this aimed for kindergarten? Or have people become this low target?
Clippy didn't walk (Score:4)
It annoyed the shit out of everyone, and could not be killed. People only remember it for how annoying it was. Microsoft has never been good at making likable things. Their success is in making people and organisations dependent, not enthusiastic. I'm not sure why they even pretend.
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Clippy wasn't surveillance: "The assistant draws on a new memory feature inside Copilot to recall facts about users and their work."
Bet that still slurps when the feature is ostensibly disabled, for user convenience should you enable it some time....
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Clippit walked so that your budget library computer would stagger and collapse. Funny how it made older office computers completely unusable, now wasn't it?
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Clippy was trivial to kill. You just had to know how (to use a search engine).
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And how does that work when Clippy is the search engine? I can't let you do that Dave...
Clippy and great ideas (Score:2)
Microsoft: "Here's our crappiest idea, hosted by Clippy!"
Crappiest mascot, crappiest idea, and crappiest investment: MSFT
Short MSFT
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Don't forget the executive who spearheaded this was paid probably 15x the median American salary for it.
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What's your point? There's someone good at throwing or catching a ball that makes 15x that executive's salary. They may be on a team that loses most of their games. Sometimes highly paid people don't do a good job. Eventually they'll be replaced with someone better, but sometimes at the present time there may not be a better alternative. Steve Baller made at least 15x what top athletes got and he was an even bigger idiot. Eventually the shareholders got sick of him and he was replaced.
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> There's someone good at throwing or catching a ball that makes 15x that executive's salary.
> Steve Baller made at least 15x what top athletes got and he was an even bigger idiot
You're making my point?
Oh good lord (Score:2)
I thought you were joking. You were not.
This is especially telling since the new Office icons have Word looking like a wanking fist.
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> There's nothing like getting wrong/misleading answers or useless responses from some cheerful smiling character.
For a minute there I thought you were referring to my boss
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I think we might have been co-workers in the past!
Baffled (Score:3)
Are the people running M$ actually retarded? Does anyone remember Clippy fondly? Has someone from LibreOffice secretly joined the M$ team??
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>> Does anyone remember Clippy fondly?
> Since you asked:
> [1]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=v3... [youtube.com]
[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=v3te8_elHWE
Clippy lives on! (Score:2)
In Louis Rossmann's "right to repair revolution". Check it out: [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] We can all be clippy now.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcLvXBKE80
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Clippy approves this message.
Inspiring! (Score:1)
I've been giving serious thought to killing myself lately, but Mico has inspired me to live a little longer, just to see what Microsoft does next.
Thank you, Mico! Thank you!
MS is just laughing at us now (Score:1)
At this point, what else could explain Microsoft strategy other than internal C-suite chuckles.
Can they? Can they really? (Score:3)
> The bouncing orb responds with real-time expressions during conversations and is being turned on by default, The Verge reports. Users can disable the feature, however.
First off: Fuck you, Microsoft. Enough for the auto-on egregious bullshit.
Second off, how long after they get feedback that everyone in the universe turned this off will it be before an update forces it back on with no off toggle?
Poke it, quickly! (Score:1)
> "If you poke Mico very very quickly, something special may happen,”
I've had women tell me that before.
All I can say is that I must not poke quickly enough.
Of course (Score:2)
" and is being turned on by default ". Of course it is, it's from Microsoft, so why ask the user first?
Brazil will find that funny (Score:3)
"Pagaram mico" as they say
Clippy just wanted to help (Score:2)
Yeah, it was stupid and annoying, but it didn't want to suck your data to serve ads.
Bouncing Orb? Is it... (Score:2)
Bouncing Orb? Is it..."Evil Otto" from Berserk?
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
JoshK.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berzerk_(video_game)
It looks like you're writing a letter .. (Score:2)
[1]It looks like you're writing a letter [youtu.be]
[2]Matrix Runs on Windows XP [youtube.com]
--
Me: I want to die ..
ClippyAI: It looks like you're writing a suicide note :o
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ClippyAI: Modern perception: Despite its initial reception, Clippy has undergone a "redemption arc" and is now often viewed with nostalgia, with people missing the "charm" of that era, notes this YouTube video. This has led to Clippy's return in a more positive, retro-style context, as seen with the Clippy Desktop Assistant.
[1] https://youtu.be/EpWbTogEEhg
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM
nico in greek and spanish (Score:2)
in greek is fungus, in spanish, monkey.
so, either a fungus thay infects your system, or a howler monkey that annoys you...
LOL (Score:2)
It looks like a blob of spooge. Appropriate.
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> It looks like a blob of spooge. Appropriate.
Or related -- [1]cartoon ovum and sperm [istockphoto.com] ...
[1] https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/the-cute-sperm-and-cute-ovum-in-pink-background-gm1407985380-458989612
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"Generative" they said...
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More like degenerative...
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If your splooge looks like that, you need to see a doctor.