Mastodawn

Today's #AI moment: got the post-layout final proof PDF of the upcoming book, loaded it into Acrobat Reader as instructed, and the thing tells me: "This looks like a long document. Would you like to see a summary instead?"

My response was unprintable.

#ai #clippy #greatgreatgrandchildofclippy #artificialintelligence #artificialinanity #adobe #llmdroppings

Michael Westergaard 1d ago

It's fun to compare #LLMs to #Microsoft's ill-fated #Clippy from the 90s. Microsoft implemented what they called assistants because the company CEO was boinking the person in charge of the project (literally – look up Microsoft #Bob and Melinda Gates).

Microsoft actually did focus groups and usability tests of the feature for #Office, and people loved it: it provided helpful hints and made accessing Office's extensive help system. Microsoft then turned Clippy to 11, making it get in your way for fucking everything.

Microsoft didn't realize people liked it giving helpful tips occasionally but didn't want it to interrupt them all the time when working.

Watching them flail about making the same mistakes to #pump market value smells the exact same a all the people arguing that the AI #bubble is different from the crypto-bubble or the sub-prime bubble or the .com bubble or all the other bubbles.

It's the exact same, they make the same mistakes because they refuse to learn from well-established history, and they rationalize it because they value short-term gains over long-term prosperity.

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Michał Fita 2d ago

@adamwarski First: #clippy with deny clauses on CI on the `main` branch and PRs to `main` branch.

𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕 6d ago

Clippy Two

If you want to surf in the glorified past on your modern web browser, then I recommend this browser plugin / app that simulates the Windows 95 interface :P
(Apply on your own responsibility!)

📱 https://clippy.skyfall.dev

#clippy #windows #win9x #desktop #web #plugin #webbrowser #app #browser #it #win #history #apps #android