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While true, it turned into a cultural phenomena, a close inspiration even showed up in Cyberpunk 2077 as an AI gun. So if MS would have revitalized it, it could have been done in a self ironic way to show some personality and taste and not be a cold, calculated money machine.
> in a self ironic way to show some personality and taste and not be a cold, calculated money machine. You posted that, and someone at Microsoft unwittingly twitched.
Great idea! I've been humorously referring to chat agents as next gen Clippy because of their chipper, talky default personas which I find insufferably annoying. I'm kind of shocked Microsoft didn't already do this as an alt version of their CoPilot UI. Really a huge miss on their part because I hate the overbearingly intrusive way they keep forcing it into their OS, apps and my fucking laptop keyboard. If they at le…
I really can’t stand their brain dead appropriation of AI - first Cortana, which they stole from Halo, now CoPilot, which they stole from GitHub (and should have been named Cod*e*Pilot anyway) -
Clippy is right there!!
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Strong recommend for Android, Firefox and uBlock Origin I also have these Extensions: ClearURLs Decentraleyes Privacy Badger I still don't care about cookies
Privacy Badger and UBlock Origin don't work well together, and LocalCDN is better than Decentraleyes
One underused Clippy feature is the fact that Clippy and all the other Agents ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Agent ), like the dog that did search in Windows XP, came with an API developers could use to write their own assistants. Thanks to the horrific beauty of ActiveX, this even allowed these Agents to be loaded into web pages. The API was supported up till Windows 7 (though it was an optional component…
That and an appropriate system prompt could get pretty close to vigor from User Friendly.
http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/00jan/20000104...
(and, of course pico-chu for the noobs.)
IIRC correctly, Clippy’s most famous feature was interrupting you to offer advice. The advice was usually basic/useless/annoying, hence Clippy’s reputation, but a powerful LLM could actually make the original concept work. It would not be simply a chatbot that responds to text, but rather would observe your screen, understand it through a vision model, and give appropriate advice. Things like “did you know there’s an…
It looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like help? * Get help with writing the letter * Just type the letter without help |_| Don't show me this tip again
Am I the only one who thinks that albeit ugly, this is way more readable than the usual web-app styled chat interfaces?
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> I'm kind of shocked Microsoft didn't already do this as an alt version of their CoPilot UI. Seriously! This makes me think nobody at Microsoft with the authority to approve something like that has a sense of humor and/or good business sense. The nostalgia would be enormous . Hell I'm a linux person now and I'd install Clippy if it supported Fedora
Clippy was a laughing stock and target of derisive comedy for years. It has such bad brand recognition that nobody should be surprised that they aren’t using it.
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Clippy was a laughing stock and target of derisive comedy for years. It has such bad brand recognition that nobody should be surprised that they aren’t using it.
Comic Sans was a laughing stock and a target of derisive comedy, but now it can be used ironically, or in the case of Comic Mono, very straight faced as well.
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I remember Clippy, but I don't remember why it was annoying. I am thinking that Robert Brooke's 3 laws of robotics applies here. (He had written one for AI but I think his thoughts on robotics are more relavent to AI agents).
I think it was the modal dialog box that forced you to stop what you were doing and click 'piss off clippy', rather than being able to ignore it.
That would be violating the second design principle:
"When robots and people coexist in the same spaces, the robots must not take away from people’s agency, particularly when the robots are failing, as inevitably they will at times."
With a physical robot, if it fails and freezes, it turns into a hazard.
With Clippy, it intrusively stops humans from being able to do what they are doing.
I really love the style. I wish this sort of style had a more specific name and could be decoupled from the desktop a bit more. Would love to see a native webpage inspired by windows 2000 or similar. I've struggled to find a name for it.