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kumarvvr on June 8, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?

They flunked the Turing test.

In a serious vein, they were more of an annoyance than help.

Similar to the Paper Clip from Microsoft. (Sorry, don't remember the name)

pg_bot on June 8, 2018 [–]

Office Assistant aka Clippit aka Clippy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant

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