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Clippy resurrected as AI assistant — project turns infamous Microsoft mascot into LLM interface
Everyone’s favorite old paperclip is back in action — in a manner of speaking.
Clippy lived in the bottom corner of Microsoft Office from 1996 to 2003, but now he can return to your desktop with a new life as a mouthpiece for AI, thanks to a new project from software engineer Felix Rieseberg. This odd couple of 90’s UI design and the modern-day AI craze provides potential users the ability to set up any locally installed LLM and use Clippy as its mouthpiece. There is certainly something to be said about the relationship between an artist and programmer designing a quirky writing aide character, and a chatbot later told to attempt to emulate that work — though the list of people waxing philosophical about Clippy likely doesn’t extend far beyond this author.
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