{"id":969198,"date":"2025-10-24T09:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969198"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:20:34","slug":"microsoft-hopes-mico-succeeds-where-clippy-failed-as-tech-companies-warily-imbue-ai-with-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/24\/microsoft-hopes-mico-succeeds-where-clippy-failed-as-tech-companies-warily-imbue-ai-with-personality\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft hopes Mico succeeds where Clippy failed as tech companies warily imbue AI with personality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character called Mico (pronounced MEE&#8217;koh) on Thursday, a floating cartoon face shaped like a blob or flame that will embody the software giant&#8217;s Copilot virtual assistant and marks the latest attempt by tech companies to imbue their AI chatbots with more of a personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time. Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character called Mico (pronounced MEE&#8217;koh) on Thursday, a floating cartoon face shaped like a blob or flame that will embody the software giant&#8217;s Copilot virtual assistant and marks the latest attempt by tech companies to imbue their AI chatbots with more of a personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}