CADIE, Google, Pandas, & April Fools’

Every year I look forward to getting on Google and seeing their latest prank/joke/hoax. I remember April 1st religiously (although I always seem to forget for about 3 minutes when my mom calls and gives me some outlandish story that I fall for), so this is the crux of my web-browsing life.

This year, they have introduced CADIE (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity) which is a take on the whole Matrix or SkyNet deal, where a machine or program becomes self-aware and begins to make changes outside it’s creator’s control.

While obviously a farce, it’s been fun to follow CADIE’s movements within google over the past few hours. If all goes as I think it will, I believe Google’s site will be completely overrun with Pandas and CADIE’s ramblings by late this afternoon. I’m really looking forward to it.

So far, she’s only a few hours old, so most of her favorite things are pandas, unicorns, kitties, and rainbows. (Apparent by the Google Images Search Page.)

Check out CADIE’s developer’s “press release” here.

Or stop by CADIE’s “home page.”

However, my two favorite Google “Upgrades” that CADIE has introduced in the past few hours are Google Chrome 3-D and, better yet, GMail AutoPilot.

This could get ridiculous..

UPDATE: Accessing google.com/m on my mobile touted a new app (created by CADIE) that would allow me to merely “think” about a search query, hold my phone to my forehead, and “Google Brain Search” would search for what I was thinking. HAHA

I think the app may be malfunctioning. I’ve had this phone to my head for 20 minutes, and still no search results for “American Idol Spoilers” are popping up.

…just a bunch of pictures of strange-looking mushrooms…

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