One of my very first AI projects was in the late 90s and used the Microsoft Agent API (which Clippy uses) as the interface.
It used Merlin rather than Clippy and was extremely basic as AI. But it was a fun project.
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#92I’m waiting for BonziBuddy AI
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#93I’m waiting for BonziBuddy AI
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But BonzaiBuddy is your friend.
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#95I can't get this to work on my aging 2017 Intel work mac.
> Error: Error invoking remote method 'ELECTRON_LLM_CREATE': Error: Error: NoBinaryFoundError
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#96"...they didn't stop to think if they should.”
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#97Any love for the other avatars? Power Pup? I think there were a few… Otherwise, thanks, this is great.
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#98Revenge of the paperclips
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#100Pretty sure Clippy is trademarked. Had the same idea but did not go through with it because of the TM.
Trademarks have to actually be used to remain enforceable, I think. Not sure MS could claim Clippy after all this time, not that they might not try.
Microsoft uses Clippy for the paperclip emoji in the Fluent Emoji set. The trademark is why the open source version of Fluent Emoji doesn't use Clippy's likeness.