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The Copilot+ PC brand is dead

122 points · 115 comments · bj-rn

  1. glimshe · · focus · HN ↗
    This is the first time a corporation has spoiled a word for me.

    "Copilot" is a term like any other and when I first heard the name, I thought it was an alright, if uninspired, choice.

    Now I can't hear the word "Copilot" used in any context without having negative feelings due to Microsoft's saturation campaign.

    Speaking of this, I also wonder about present and future people named "Claude", a mainstream name in some parts of the world.

    1. torben-friis · · focus · HN ↗
      Happens frequently. I can't hear tremendous anymore. Just considering ai I'm fed up with load bearing, wrinkle, catch...

      It got to the point where I feel irrationally hostile to a message when it claims I'm right :).

      1. dgellow · · focus · HN ↗
        Even just the term AI is now so cancerous!

        A bit unrelated to that thread but I love that clip from a debate where John McCarthy interjects: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;pyU9pm1hmYs?t=152" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;pyU9pm1hmYs?t=152

        “Excuse me. I invented the term artificial intelligence. I invented it because we had to do something when we were trying to get money for a summer study in 1956, and I had a previous bad experience”

        (The whole debate is interesting, I would recommend if you like that type of historical things)

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