{"id":4002,"date":"2023-06-30T01:53:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T01:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/madman-brings-clippy-back-as-an-ai"},"modified":"2023-06-30T01:53:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T01:53:48","slug":"madman-brings-clippy-back-as-an-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/madman-brings-clippy-back-as-an-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Madman Brings Clippy Back as an AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undead Clippit Clippy&#8217;s back, y&#8217;all \u2014 and more powerful than ever. The former Microsoft Office mascot \u2014 technically named Clippit, though pretty much everyone calls him Clippy \u2014 has had a rough go of it. First introduced back in 1997, the anthropomorphic paperclip was first retired from its hate-it-or-love-it &#8220;office assistant&#8221; role back in 2001. Then, years later in 2019, Microsoft momentarily resurrected Clippy \u2014 only to murder him once again on that very same day. Now, per PC World, Clippy has once again been resurrected, albeit not by Microsoft. A developer called FireCube has brought the Groucho-eyebrowed paperclip back, and this time it&#8217;s powered by OpenAI&#8217;s red-hot GPT-3.5 large language model (LLM). &#8220;Clippy by FireCube (Not by Microsoft) brings back the infamous Clippit into your desktop powered by the OpenAI GPT 3.5 model,&#8221; reads the product description for the newly-undead mascot. &#8220;Clippy can be pinned to the screen for quick access to chat or just be left for nostalgia.&#8221; There you have it, folks. It&#8217;s not just Clippy. It&#8217;s SuperClippy, powered by the same technology that its original maker-slash-unaliver paid gazillions of dollars for a major stake in. The &#8220;brand police&#8221; \u2014 as a Microsoft insider characterized Clippy&#8217;s killers to The Verge back in 2019 \u2014 can suck it. Clipheads Rise Well, maybe. There&#8217;s always the chance that this ClippyGPT could grow so popular \u2014 and thus so powerful, at least in its financial prospects \u2014 that Microsoft could be moved to kill the digital assistant for the third&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/microsoft-clippy-back-ai\">Madman Brings Clippy Back as an AI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undead Clippit Clippy&#8217;s back, y&#8217;all \u2014 and more powerful than ever. The former Microsoft Office mascot \u2014 technically named Clippit, though pretty much everyone calls him Clippy \u2014 has had&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[607,300,2089,3400,3399,12,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}