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.
So you are telling me there are people willing to click [Next] through a clippy tutorial but not help.
(Imho people just don’t read anything anyone, no popups, especially they don’t read errors)
Hm, I guess that makes sense. It was there for the first use.
(And yes, Clippy was factual, LLMs generally arent trained or tweaked that way - outside of specialty in-company use.)
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.
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.
So you are telling me there are people willing to click [Next] through a clippy tutorial but not help.
(Imho people just don’t read anything anyone, no popups, especially they don’t read errors)
Hm, I guess that makes sense. It was there for the first use.
(And yes, Clippy was factual, LLMs generally arent trained or tweaked that way - outside of specialty in-company use.)
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