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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by outintospace »

bdsa wrote: post #29
ahartmetz wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As "Principal Program Manager, Copilot Acceleration Team" even. That's sad. It sounds like person in charge of "Hey do you want Copilot? How about now? How about now? And now?! Here's another popup! Do you want it now? Why not?! Have you tried Copilot?" Etc... (I know about title inflation, he's probably not in charge of all that much, but still)

That's the article author Robert Standefer, I don't think he created Comic Chat, that was David Kurlander...

That is correct. DJ Kurlander is the creator of Comic Chat and he is credited in the blog post. I'm just the guy that made the open source release happen, with DJ's support. He retired from Microsoft 20+ years ago.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by cube00 »

outintospace wrote: post #65
rideontime wrote: post #63

Depressing to see all the AI-generated text in an article about a creative communication tool. Even the comic's punchline is clunky, and no human being would ever refer to Michael Jordan as the "Space Jam guy."

I wrote that, not AI. There's a typo: it was supposed to be, "Is the Space Jam guy still playing baseball?" I didn't have time to recreate the entire comic before publish date.

> I didn't have time to recreate the entire comic before publish date.

It's depressing that even a blog post about open sourcing a two decade old piece of software has such a hard deadline the author feels pressured to publish before they're ready.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by johannes1234321 »

CursedSilicon wrote: post #59
serf wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this was released in 1996. Microsoft was at one of its' most powerful evil phases it had ever seen during that phase, and to pretend it was some kind of antithesis to 'corporate metric please' is a disservice to history. I liked comic chat , and I see that your actual point is more just "ai bad" , but 88-99 microsoft was brutally corporate metric pleasing. see also : Microsoft antitrust history Microsoft FTC investig…

Microsoft was a massive corporation To imply that every single person there was evil to their core simply by association is utterly ridiculous. I doubt the guy who created Minesweeper was dreaming of world domination while working there

The fish stinks from the head. And yes, some departments have some freedom and some good people.

But it was in the timeframe where the "browser wars" gained momentum, where Microsoft Network tried to "Microsoftify" the Internet etc.

Even if it was a research project by research focussed people it fit in the bigger strategy and gave a friendly face.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by outintospace »

cube00 wrote: post #73
outintospace wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wrote that, not AI. There's a typo: it was supposed to be, "Is the Space Jam guy still playing baseball?" I didn't have time to recreate the entire comic before publish date.

> I didn't have time to recreate the entire comic before publish date. It's depressing that even a blog post about open sourcing a two decade old piece of software has such a hard deadline the author feels pressured to publish before they're ready.

Sorry to bring you down. I hope you can find joy in the rest of the work.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by NDlurker »

outintospace wrote: post #64

Hi, I'm Robert Standefer, the guy who made this happen, with lots of support. I'm excited to see the enthusiasm about Comic Chat being open sourced. How this came to happen is a very interesting story that spans a six-year period with success that hinged upon being in the right place at the right time, literally. I want to point out that, while I (along with Scott Hanselman) made the Comic Chat open source release ha…

Thank you! My only experience with Comic Chat is reading Jerk City comics. Always thought it was a neat concept but never used it

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Post by mrob »

rideontime wrote: post #63

Depressing to see all the AI-generated text in an article about a creative communication tool. Even the comic's punchline is clunky, and no human being would ever refer to Michael Jordan as the "Space Jam guy."

>no human being would ever refer to Michael Jordan as the "Space Jam guy."

Maybe not in the USA, but globally I think it's likely that more people watched Space Jam than ever watched an NBA match. Professional basketball is a niche sport in most of the world.

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