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They should be marketed as mascots, and given playful, childish personalities. You wouldn't blindly trust a child, why would you an AI in its infancy?
by ASalazarMX 4y ago
They should be marketed as mascots, and given playful, childish personalities. You wouldn't blindly trust a child, why would you an AI in its infancy?
- furyofantares 4y agoClippy?
- oauea 4y agoMicrosoft really missed out by not having the bing AI assistant be clippy-based
- adamrezich 4y agoI guarantee they focus-tested it and found that most people who remember Clippy don't have fond memories of him (and/or remember the memes/jokes about him more than they remember the actual Clippy), but, more importantly, most people don't remember him at all and wondered why this weird paper clip guy was talking. he hasn't been in an Office product since, what, 23 years ago or something? (not counting cameos)
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoAnd probably a fair number asked "what is this weird bent line thing and what does it have to do with searching the internet?"
- knodi123 4y ago"Okay, fine, we'll make him an anthropomorphic phone dial. Or maybe a floppy disc."
- skydhash 4y agoThey trusted the "Red Queen". /s
- munificent 4y agoThank you. Now whenever I read output of a generative LLM, I will read it in my head with the confidently-wrong often-insane cadence of a toddler.
- int_19h 4y agoIt will never happen because people will predictably abuse such bots in various gross ways, and the moment it leaks to the press, there will be a "think of the children" scandal.