[HardCodedBias]

This is clearly aggressive.

Will this pan out? We don't know, no one knows. But this isn't "a scam" there is a plausible future where a large percentage of white collar (or dare I say it, blue collar) work will have an assistant and that assistant requires a considerable subscription (200/mo? 1000/mo?).

Interesting to see all of the leading labs in the West make this bet.

[diamond559]

12k a year out of your paycheck for an advanced Clippy "assistant"? Sorry, this is not plausible. Oh and by blue collar work do you mean done by walking talking robots? I bet you think we'll be flying cars to work w/in 5 years too huh. Oh yeah and when is your chatbot going to solve physics and cure cancer again? You ppl have lost your minds.

[datadrivenangel]

Actually yeah 12k a year better be really really good, because that can get you a lot of quality human. At 12k per year and $100/hour, that gets you 120 hours of time which means you get ~20 minutes per day, on average. Or if you get down to $33 an hour it's an hour a day.

[HardCodedBias]

I don't think it requires robots. Although that's possible too.

I think that HoloLens has a reasonable demonstration of how to assist blue collar work about 10 years ago (AFAIK it flopped). I would bet a dollar that similar technology augmented with LLMs could be useful to blue collar work.

[diamond559]

Well clearly Microsoft don't see how given that they canceled the project this year. Do you really think we need some video game HUD in our vision at all times? Come back to the real world it's nice here.

[HardCodedBias]

"12k a year out of your paycheck for an advanced Clippy "assistant"? Sorry, this is not plausible"

It's certainly possible. Will it actually happen? IDK.

[miohtama]

If it can format images in Microsoft Word without breaking the document, or fix Microsoft Excel formula issues everyone will be buying.