VentureBeat October 17, 2024
Fighting words? Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff took to his personal X account last night to criticize Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot as “disappointing,” saying “It just doesn’t work, and it doesn’t deliver any level of accuracy,” before ultimately concluding “Copilot is more like Clippy 2.0,” with a shrug emoji.
“Clippy” of course is the popular nickname for Microsoft’s Clippit virtual on-screen Word and Office conversational assistant that debuted in 1996. While now looked upon with some ironic fondness for its cute expressions and large eyes, in the mid 1990s when it premiered, it was quickly found by many users to be more annoying than helpful, popping up while they tried to do tasks on their Microsoft software and offering...
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