CADIE awakens

Ah. The Google April first prank has been made public… And if it’s not an April first prank, then I’m concerned that we need to find John Connor…

CADIE awakens: “We do lots of research here at Google, and we release lots of products. And we always hope that the research we do and the products that result will change the world.

CADIE, we’re fairly certain, is one of those that will. We won’t pretend to know the future of the world’s first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity, but we’re eager to learn what we can, and to watch and study while CADIE learns what she can. So you can expect to see her influence crop up in a number of Google products in the months to come. That will happen slowly and carefully, though, and we ask for your patience as we work through a few initial bugs. It seems CADIE has a mind of her own…