[nozzlegear]

The science fiction AI of my childhood was Cortana, who was a lot more cool than a relentlessly proactive token torcher which burned 12 bucks to fix some CSS.

[solenoid0937]

You can literally make Cortana with modern LLMs. Or something close to it. Especially as models like this are trained: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/

[nozzlegear]

Sorry, I should've been more specific; like jrflowers said: the Cortana I was referring to was the AI character from the Halo series. I did have a Windows Phone though and thought the Cortana assistant was one of the coolest things back then!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana_(Halo)

[jrflowers]

I think GP meant Cortana from the Halo video game series and not the start menu bar widget