Microsoft’s New AI Assistant

Richard Bradbury | Christine Wong | Arvindh Yuvaraj

29-Aug-18 12:30

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Remember Clippy, the annoying little paperclip that kept asking Microsoft Word users if they needed help? Well, Microsoft claims to have improved their AI assistants - and will be introducing an extension of their pre-existing MyAnalytics Office 365 tool to do little “nudges”. However, will this increase our productivity or remain as patronising as ever?

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Tags: productivity, Artificial intelligence, software development, Time Management, user interface, microsoft clippy, office assistant,

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