Microsoft’s first attempt at artificial intelligence
The WaPo morning email thingie gives us a heads-up that Microsoft —the same people who thought a Paper Clip who popped up randomly was gonna be the future of computing— is going to be including their chatbot right into your PC:
You could soon be able to talk to Microsoft’s chatbot straight from your PC.
- What’s happening? TheAI-powered Bing chatbot, which has amazed (and unsettled) people with its answers to complex questions, is being added to the search bar in Windows 11.
- When will I get it? The software update started rolling out yesterday. But you won’t be able to chat with Bing unless you’ve made it off a long wait list.
What could go wrong?
Mock Paper Scissors 
“Find me the latest Margie 3Toes meme,
HalBing”“I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave”
(enormously funny to me, because somehow my work email address has been associated with “Dave” on some sort of spammer list floating around out there…weirdly none of them seem to get the joke when I write back “Dave’s not here, man!” )
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https://xkcd.com/323/
Windows ME
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😃😃😃
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There’s always “there’s an xkcd for that”
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Clippy was introduced in MS Bob. Not making that up.
That was also Melinda Gates project, where Bill met her. A whole legacy of regret.
Rgds,
TG
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Bob is also notable as the birthplace of Comic Sans. A treasure trove of computer user joy, it was primarily used to update you on the status of your car warranty.
OK, the last part is not true, but the comic sans thing, sadly is.
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Everyone can go ahead of me in line on the wait list. I dislike talking to machines anyway, unless I’m cussin’ at ’em. Something tells me chatbots won’t take that… 🤭
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In the dark ages (mid-90’s) voice control was going to be the Next Great Thing, and one wag said “it’ll last until someone runs through the the cube farm shouting ‘format c colon yes’” 🙂
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😄😄😄
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I often talk to machines. Mainly the self-checkout machines at Kroger whenever they don’t understand what I meant.
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Most common first question: “How do I turn off the chatbot?”
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For those two-fingered dummies who never learned to type. Or how to use all their fingers on a keyboard, which isn’t hard. I taught myself how to type when I was SEVEN years old.
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