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Had the privilege of attending a talk given by one of the MS researchers behind Clippy. They were using some very sophisticated ML behind the scenes (Bayes Nets
by pfisherman 4y ago
Had the privilege of attending a talk given by one of the MS researchers behind Clippy. They were using some very sophisticated ML behind the scenes (Bayes Nets) to interpret intent and guide troubleshooting. The magic of that often goes unappreciated with all of the vitriol / hype around the character.
- infinite8s 4y agoHere's Eric Horvitz's page on Lumiere, the research project underlying Clippy - http://erichorvitz.com/lum.htm http://erichorvitz.com/lum.htm. It's quite sad that the business side hobbled the assistant to the point of making it annoying, mainly because of space reasons (that was also when Office got its first spell check, and the extra space needed for the the more sophisticated assistant modeling was competing for that space).
- marcosdumay 4y agoI don't think anybody had a problem with the character. Most of the issues are about disguised modal dialogs getting in your way.