"It looks like you’ve clicked on an article about 'Clippy.' Would you like to know more?" For a generation of Microsoft Office users, "Clippy’s" cheerful, if occasionally intrusive, pop-ups were an ...
If you’re old enough to remember when 8MB thumb drives hit the scene, you’ll probably remember Clippy, Microsoft’s digital writing assistant. Clippy lived in the bottom corner of Microsoft Office from ...
What if Clippy were powered by AI? That seems to be the pitch behind Microsoft's new "expressive, customizable and warm" face of Copilot's voice mode. The friendly blob listens, reacts and changes ...
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As an elder millennial, I remember Clippy well. I don't remember Microsoft Office's animated paperclip fondly, but I'll never forget him. The rarely helpful assistant would pop up to make suggestions ...
AI Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it FPS A quote that somehow feels like the final nail in the coffin of the ...
Fighting words? Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff took to his personal X account last night to criticize Microsoft's AI assistant Copilot as "disappointing," saying "It just doesn’t work, and ...
Clippy, Microsoft’s unwanted, unloved Office assistant, once listed as one of Time’s 50 Worst Inventions, is experiencing a renaissance. You remember Clippy. He was the animated paper clip who would ...
Microsoft has a new Clippy, and it’s an AI friend called Mico. At the company’s Copilot fall release press event on Thursday, the company introduced a range of new features and updates for its AI ...
It's hard not to admit that Microsoft nailed it on the cute factor with Mico, but those who don't want to see the character don't have to -- it's completely optional to use. Don't miss any of our ...