I agree that tools should, but what I've seen of AI so far has not impressed me at all. It's constantly getting things wrong by either making something up or se

I agree that tools should, but what I've seen of AI so far has not impressed me at all. It's constantly getting things wrong by either making something up or selectively ignoring parts of what I said to it. Worse, one of the biggest reasons people hated Clippy was that it was obtrusive. Much to Microsoft's surprise, people didn't actually need any help writing a letter, but that didn't stop Clippy from interrupting you while you were trying to work. Writers in particular hate distractions. They'll occasionally go to some fairly extreme lengths to get a distraction free environment (sometimes even sticking to pencils or typewriters). Considering how hard AI is being rammed down our throats everywhere already, I have zero confidence that AI Clippy would be anything but obtrusive and obnoxious. At best, it'd be a feature that people turn off as soon as they see it's been forced on them. Maybe one day we'll actually see AGI and instead of Clippy we'll get a system wide, entirely local, fully open, privacy protecting virtual assistant that's worth a damn. I can't say it wouldn't be nice if it worked like science fiction. My bet is that we're far more likely to get stuck with a bunch of annoying spyware programs, Bonzi Buddy style, using an LLM to fake intelligence, push ads/manipulate users, and deflect accountability.