Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy by Tom Warren

“You can see it, it reacts as you speak to it, and if you talk about something sad you’ll see its facial expressions react almost immediately,” explains Andreou. “All the technology fades into the background, and you just start talking to this cute orb and build this connection with it.”

I still don’t know how I feel about ChatGPT having a character. But clearly they’re going through with it.