DARPA Builds Smarter Version of Microsoft's Clippy

holy_calamity writes "Microsoft's animated paperclip may be long dead, but a $150m DARPA project has resurrected the idea of a virtual assistant. AI researchers from more than 60 institutions worked on the project entitled CALO. CALO is designed to help ease the bureaucratic burden of the military. A consumer spinoff, Siri, is coming to the iPhone later this year. It responds to conversational voice commands to take over multi-step tasks like choosing and booking restaurants or cabs."

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The new assistant's avatar

[techno-vampire]

Just to mzake sure this thing is as popular as possible, they should make the avatar pink. Yeah, that's it, a pink pony. OMH, PONIES!!1! LOTS AND LOTS OF PINK PONIES11!!!1!11!