You realise that this is because Microsoft spent billions of dollars on what amounts to a new version of "Clippy" and it's just as helpful as the original.

If you're unfamiliar with the abomination, it's a dumber version of Copilot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

a new version of “Clippy” and it’s just as helpful as the original.

And somehow infinitely less charming

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 14 points 5 months ago

If they make it look like a paperclip and almost as useful I'd consider it

[–] guycls@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Oh, I'm somewhat familiar. Our school computer lab when setup had all windows 95 machines and I later got a xp at home so I got to play with office 2000 and such.

Iirc it never was able to help me with something. I thought they put in a interactive mascot or something. Like a mini-game you can play with while typing a letter to your principal.

Copilot has been little helpful sometimes though when I want to generate images of things made out of jeans.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait, clippy was supposed to be helpful?

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah, "Microsoft helpful", not actually helpful.