28 Years After ‘Clippy’, Microsoft Upgrades Copilot With Cartoon Assistant ‘Micu’

“Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time,” writes the Associated Press:

Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character called Mico (pronounced MEE’koh) on Thursday, a floating cartoon face shaped like a blob or flame that will embody the software giant’s Copilot virtual assistant and marks the latest attempt by tech companies to imbue their AI chatbots with more of a…