Microsoft's much-hated Clippy was effectively born on a Mac
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.
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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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