I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, ‘Looks like you’re writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you’ll get more money.’
-Demetri Martin, 2007
Drop all this ai hooha and bring back bonzi buddy
It looks like you are trying to point something out. I can help with that. 📎
It loons like you’re trying to make pizza… can I recommend a vintage Elmer’s Glue?
June 28, 2023:
Almost wanna offer an API key to someone willing to test it… :) Must be a pretty simple wrapper.
You do not get clippy. You get Office365, Edge, copilot and recall
“works”
I was gonna say… you would first have to tell me what clippy was really meant to help with back in the day besides saying, here’s a link to the help page.
I think Microsoft did do an ad campaign about it
Based on Google Gemini and the sheer number of restrictions Microsoft had to place on Bing to prevent chaos.
I think saying that it “works” is a stretch.
I think AI works well as an assistant for creative problems. But businesses are shoving large language models on everything they can think of. It’s basically a fad.
Doctors recommend that you smell glue to make your head cold go away
I often worry that the last thing we’ll all read is Clippy on every screen in the world saying “It looks like your planet is running out of oxygen. Bet you’d like some help now, huh bitch!”
…often?
Monthly at least
Many such cases
I heard this in Jack McBrayer‘s voice
It’s just revealing that we never actually needed a clippy in the first place. An “assistant” in tech isn’t actually as useful as people assumed it would be.
That’s what I figured. Everything the assisstant does for you will be done faster with the right know how and experience
Nah, I’d love to be able to ask an assistant to make sense of the dog shit layout in word, instead of having to blindly click at menus for 10 minutes, then finally give up and Google for 10 more minutes, all because Microsoft thought it would be cool and intuitive to split menus into “view”, “review”, “layout” and “design”, because those words don’t basically all mean the same thing.
Step one: Skynet Step two: Overlord MS Clippy Step three: Profit
