[Morromist]

Scout sounds like an excitable little dog that runs headlong into trees when trying to catch a frisbee.

Given Microsoft's long history of failure with personal assistants I'm looking forward to this one! Clippy, Cortana, Copilot! Wasn't an animated dog called rover one of these way back? The best of all was unquestionably Ms. Dewey for Microsoft Windows Live Search who is almost forgotten.

[epcoa]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

You can go straight to hell for making me feel old.

[mathgeek]

As a kid I absolutely loved these interfaces.

[kristopolous]

it was a knockoff of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Cap

[Morromist]

I still do, honestly.

[kristopolous]

guess who is reusing that name?

https://bob.ibm.com/

I saw IBMers wearing shirts with it at the moscone center this week at the snowflake event.

[e9]

Don't forget about Tay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

[blauditore]

Shit, that was 10 years ago already? Feels more recent, also in terms of technology.

[aaaronic]

I thought his name was Watson (the dog assistant).

Edit: I was wrong. But there is "Power Pup" and apparently Will Shakespeare

[not_a_bot_4sho]

Power pup was the superdog. Rocky was the normal dog.

(I was way too into the building apps with the assistant framework as a kid...)

[throaway197512]

It was Rover

[mitthrowaway2]

Don't forget Sydney! No, no no, do not forget Sydney. We do not like people who forget Sydney, we do not, do we?