It looks like you're trying to get out of your homework. Would you like help?
It looks like you're trying to get out of your homework. Would you like help?
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More like Bonsi Buddy
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Now that's a name I've not heard in a looong time. Long time...
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Same, BB would have been late Win98/early XP days for me lol
I miss that purple monkey :(
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More like 🎱
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Computer Science
Looks inside
Probabilities
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Turns out our universe is comically probabilistic
(Also I have markovian math this semester. I think medieval torture is a more merciful fate than this shit)
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Same soul.
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Karl Klammer
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Clippy was useful. GPT has industrialized the production of morons.
Useful? What? When?
IIRC clippy wasn't necessarily useful, but if you had zero clue wtf you were doing it wasn't entirely pointless and most importantly, you could trust that the information provided was accurate, albeit not very often relevant.
LLMs don't even have that going for them.
At some time, it offered templates and grammar verification.
If you think depending on a unreliable heuristic to steal your focus and give you those things at random times is "useful", than yeah, it was.
Um, what universe did you slide in from where this is true?
You have to remember that when Clippy was introduced with Office 97 in Nov. 1996 a lot of people were coming to a PC from a DOS era or older machine, typewriter, or nothing at all. Anthropomorphic assistants were all the rage to teach people how to use a GUI for the first time. Admittedly Microsoft took things too far. But for a lot of people who didn’t know the wizards were there the assistants were genuinely helpful.
https://github.com/felixrieseberg/clippy