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Clippy first saw the light of day - by which we mean the Microsoft Office helper was designed - on a Mac, not a Windows PC as you might have expected.

Kevan Atteberry, the creator of the infamous Clippy, had no idea how popular the once hated Microsoft Word assistant would become.

In an alternate world, we'd all be using Windows Phones, listening to music with Zunes and listening to advice from Clippy. This is not that world.

The promise for generative AI is that you can use your natural, spoken language to ask the computer to do something and the computer will automatically do it.

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For those creeped out by the thought of machines turning evil, recent developments are enough to pine for the days when the Dewey Decimal System reigned supreme

As New York Times columnist Kevin Roose discovered, extended interactions can produce conversations straight out of science fiction.

Since generative AI is likely to change how we interact with our devices, how could it not also change the devices themselves?

In the '90s, Microsoft created an annoying paperclip that it quickly retired. Its developers never imagined the virtual assistant would become a cultural icon. The blank screen was already intimidating enough. Then, out of nowhere, an incorporeal...