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Artificial IntelligenceMicrosoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot(extremetech.com)
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Clippie > Copilot.
“_It looks like you’re trying to upload all your personal data to Microsoft, would you like an agent to help with that?_”
"Op too late. Upload complete. Press any key to accept."
Task failed successfully.
I used to get this error every dcpromo.
“Aw, where’s the Any key?”
I don't know but I could go for a tab right now.
No time for that. Computer is starting up.
Hey Ms doesn't find me sexually attractive anymore, I just tripled my productivity!
Everyone needs some space
Accept Snooze for one day
Those are your only options
"Press any key to accept" is fucking diabolical.
"You can now safely turn off your computer."
Options are "accept" or "accept later"
[✓ Accept] [X Maybe Later]
"Ok!"
pushes power button
"Power key is an acceptable key for approval"
Anyone using OneDrive has already been doing that, irrespective of their use of Copilot.
How does OneDrive get my personal data?
Microsoft installs it and sets your files to save there by default when you install Windows. You've got to pay attention to it to avoid it. Most people end up not realizing.
It didn't used to and it was damn annoying. I did registry hacks back in the day to sync my documents with the cloud and back down locally to other computers. OneDrive is pretty nice.
"Would you like an agent to help with that?"
[ ] Yes [ ] Remind me in 3 days
options are :
Yes
Remind me in 2 seconds
Clippy would never steal all my data.
It looks like you want to cut a bitch, would you like help with that?
That's an insult to Clippy, Clippy is like the Ellen Ripley of AI Assistants - last survivor of the MSOS Bob....and in his original form was sort of genuinely intended to help users.
Now if I saw Clippy in the wild I'd presume it's zombie Clippy who's charming idiocy is the pleasant façade of whatever semi-sentient persona GPT is expatriating all your data without your knowledge or consent.
I figure his source code is preserved on ice, they whip him out of cryo every decade or to , to help resuscitate the idea that AI assistants will sometime soon be helpful....again.
My favorite use of Clippy is right here - in all his glory.
Other than Comic Sans?
Sadly I painfully remember seeing Comic Sans in a Windows for Workgroups as a "font-pack" that - when loaded - sometimes caused excel 95 to go into Comic Sans mode given whatever fucking web of tweaks we had on the baseline installation in one lab when I was a kid.
Nothing wrong with a lab-technician that home-rolls their image for their lab - it's another when they create - single handedly almost 1/2 of all the tickets by distributing a befuckled image to 30 workstations.
It was a very solid crew of administrators it's 30+ years later and it's my favorite "I'm just going to point this out" and let everyone draw whatever conclusion they want. Unsurprisingly, with a standard image - problems magically stopped, and all we had to load was that fucking font pack and some voice to text software for the users in that lab.
Clippy was animated by Tim Miller of Deadpool & Love & Robots fame!
I tried to explain Bob to a zoomer once and the look they gave me made me wonder if I’d hallucinated the whole thing. Thank you internet person for validating me.
Wow, you never see a MSBob reference anymore.
That video was excellent.
It looks like your wanting to concentrate on something without interruptions, can I help?
Dude they could have brought back clippy and everyone would have lost their minds.
The should have just brought back Clippie as the AI agent and it would have been a roaring success
Yeah but I think they took their marketing campaign advice from their AI so nobody thought of that.
For real tho, I would use it only to see Clippy, the friendly face that got me through school assignments.
At this point I'd take Chappie over copilot
Rose colored glasses.
You could turn off Clippy; thus Clippy is superior.
I still see Clippy every day on an old system not linked to the online world just used to download old equipment. He is every bit as annoying as we remember. But not as much as Copilot.
Actual psychopath vibes misspelling it that way
Clippy is also a misspelling.
Dude's name was Clippit.
Copilot is literally just Clippie 2025. Clippie went and saw the wizard, got himself a brain and since we all know how the story goes (spoiler alert: the wizard turns out to be a shady conman), this is what we get.
We just had our monthly call with Microsoft, they asked how everyone was using CoPilot, AI Studio, CoPilot studio... nobody had actual functional examples, just "yeah I've looked at it".
Our rep sounded so dejected.
Clippie? You mean Gnosis?
On nostalia alone, Clippie would have had a bigger adoption rate than Co-pilot. Theres, like, 100 products with AI assistants called "co-pilot." I would not have even read the description, I would have been like "Clippie is back!" and enabled it with no followup questions.
Check out the song Ghost by Depta Heavy.
Our boy gets his revenge.
https://youtu.be/b4taIpALfAo?si=f7qnV-7VYOlKy-Qq
Clippie is a corpo mouthpiece. You’ve been duped.
I neeeeeeed a shirt like this ASAP
Ive started noticing more and more Redditors using Clippie as their profile image over the last few months, now Im wondering if this is the statement theyre making?
Copilot = Badgey
Justice for Clippie
Could have made an AI Rover as well as Clippie.
funny to me clippy is who everyone remembers. i always liked the dog, cat, or the little einstein guy
BonziBuddy is the real hero.
Cortana not even mentioned
Change it to Cortana and make it useful 👌
The only comment that matters, really.
Copilot is the classic case of a bolt on AI tool that provides little to no benefit whatsoever.
British bus drivers: “Don’t you put that evil on us!”
You're outta line, but you're right
What i dont understand is how copilot is so much worse than chatgpt when they're using the same model