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Comment It's 1997, Microsoft Bob is the platform for AI (Score 1, Flamebait) 57

by stx23 (#65901385) Attached to: Microsoft's Risky Bet That Windows Can Become The Platform for AI Agents

It's 2003, Clippy is the platform for AI

It's 2014, Cortana is the platform for AI

It's 2026, and I don't know what Microsoft is calling the blob of cum that's supposed to be it's AI thing but we're going to be talking about the same thing in a few years if we're not all dead

Comment Re: How about no punctuation? (Score 1) 57

by stx23 (#65864835) Attached to: English Has Become Easier To Read

would be better without capitalisation or quotation marks and maybe add some phonetic spellings into the mix and then get jamming on the auto suggestion and the word is this was a good day and a good night of fun with my family i hope everyone had fun today too i hope everyone had an this was a good day and a good night of fun with my family i hope everyone has an this was a good idea and a good thing i will try this next year as i am very excited about this new product i have made in my life i am excited about the new products and the future i will make soon and the new products will come out very interesting to see what the new products i am looking to develop in my future and what the new product is this was a good idea and a good thing i will try this next year as i am very excited about this

Submission + - Mycroft (the Open Source Voice Assistant) is dead 1

Submitted by stx23
stx23 writes: Mycroft, the open source voice assisstant will fold at the end of month, no longer fulfilling backer rewards and selling off the last devices. Michael Lewis, the investor turned CEO, posted the following to the Kickstarter this morning:

"So what went wrong? The single most expensive item that I could not predict was our ongoing litigation against the non-practicing patent entity that has never stopped trying to destroy us. If we had that million dollars we would be in a very different state right now.

With so much of our focus on hardware, and less funding to devote to improving our software — the quality and features available on the Mark II at launch were clearly underwhelming. It is more robust and stable than it has ever been, but this came at the cost of fewer new features. That in turn I believe has resulted in less than flattering reviews, and little mainstream coverage. The hardware itself has proven itself to be a solid base to work from, but without good reviews you get less sales, and without strong sales, the plan doesn’t work.

Which brings us to the present day. We will still be shipping all orders that are made through the Mycroft website, because these sales directly cover the costs of producing and shipping the products. However we do not have the funds to continue fulfilling rewards from this crowdfunding campaign, or to even continue meaningful operations."

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

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