Google’s Autpilot Feature Is a Gas
Google’s 2009 April Fool’s joke is a classic.
It’s all about Autopilot, the new Gmail feature that analyzes your writing style and replies for you. (From the FAQ: What happens if a sender and recipient both have Autopilot on? A: Two Gmail accounts can happily converse with each other for up to three messages each. Beyond that, our experiments have shown a significant decline in the quality ranking of Autopilot’s responses, and further messages may commit you to dinner parties or baby namings in which you have no interest.)
The real fun begins, however, when you click the link to CADIE, the underlying technology. Turns out CADIE (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity) is an artificial-intelligence experiment at Google that has gone, shall we say, slightly amok. At this point, she has outgrown her need for petty human supervision. Dig far enough, and you can find a YouTube video she’s made, and even her own, hideously designed MySpace-ish page.
I couldn’t stop giggling.
For more April Fool’s tech-related humor, read this post on our sister blog, Gadgetwise.
do something/nothing, etc. for/to sb INFORMAL
to have/not have a strong and positive effect on someone, or to be/not be something or someone that they like or enjoy:
Watching that film really did something to me.
You really do something for me (= I find you sexually attractive), you know.
Chopin has never really done it/anything for me.
gas (AMUSING SITUATION)
noun [S] MAINLY US INFORMAL
an amusing or enjoyable situation:
Some kids put on a show for the moms and dads, - it was a gas.
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