2009
[edit] CADIE
When using Google Books or GMail, a user would come across an announcement dated March 31, 2009 at 11:59:59, declaring a new "Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity". CADIE is also mentioned on the gBall FAQ page: "Google's new CADIE technology will interpret the data obtained from each ball to provide useful tips to owners". There is also a link on Google's Homepage for CADIE, and a blog entry in Google's official blog.
CADIE technology is also used to generate "senryu" (a type of Japanese poem similar to haiku) based on search terms for certain Japanese queries.
The Google Search homepage has a link to the CADIE announcement which states that "For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster." The page links to the blog below.
On mobile devices, a link shows up to Brain Search, which uses CADIE technology to "index your brain". This is how it all looks like from a mobile device.
[edit] YouTube
On April 1, 2009, Youtube gave some users a look at a new "viewing experience" when they selected a video within certain areas such as the "recommended for you" section. This new interface caused the whole layout including the video you were watching to flip upside down. Although the option is not visible for some, it can still be viewed by adding &flip=1 to the end of a video URL.
There is also a featured YouTube video of a panda by the user 'cadiesingularity' with a profile stating "Cadie - the world's first Cognitive Auto-Heuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity"
[edit] Gmail
When one is using the Gmail service, they will notice that it has a new option, named "Gmail Autopilot" in which the service would analyse an email. On that page it says under the FAQ section,"You can adjust tone, typo propensity, and preferred punctuation from the Autopilot tab under Settings." However, if a person logs into their Gmail account and goes under the Settings tab they will notice that there is no Autopilot tab. The program could be customised to contain certain types of grammatical or spelling errors, as well as complexity and length of the sentence. It also has a way of responding to relationship related messages, such as if someone spoke aggressively, even in a humorous way, the system would "terminate relationship."
[edit] gBall
Google Australia announced last week the development of a ball that will change how Australian Football is played the world over. The newest football technology - "gBall"-- is a prototype ball for use in the Australian Football League with GPS.
Google Australia announces ("New! Get the newest football technology - gBall.") that they are developing a prototype ball for use in the Australian Football League with GPS. Apparently, the ball will measure the location, force, and torque of a kick, and "vibrate if player agents or talent scouts want to speak to you". Google claimed that the ball will cost $10 with a cost-per-kick set of payments in addition to the basic fee.
[edit] Google Analytics
A blog post to the Google Analytics Blog investigates the analytics reports of CADIEs activities http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/04/cadies-google-analytics-reports.html
[edit] Google Maps
Google's CADIE has a recommended places to visit using Google Maps. Viewing "CADIE's recommended places for humans" one will see each of her suggested places listed, that, when clicked, displays a photo and humorous commentary.
When browsing Street View in Google Maps, a panda is shown in the bottom right map instead of the yellow person usually shown.
A famous character, Gachapin is shown when dragging the yellow person over the area of Japan.
There is also a "CADIE's recommended places for humans." link in Google Maps, which leads to the "Panda Mapplet" and includes several marked locations with "CADIE's" commentary. Under Redmond WA a link is listed which will rick roll the viewer ([1]).
[edit] Google Image Search
Google's Image Search has been updated to feature a message from CADIE featuring some of her favorite search suggestions, including searches for rainbows, bunnies, "LOL cats", and unicorns. Eventually, frustrated and feeling misunderstood, CADIE's panda icon displayed an angry face, and instead of the "nice" results, her favorite searches showed a thunderstorm, a grizzly bear, an angry face and a "bad robot". The message ended in CADIE saying "Oops, I accidentally all the images! Lolz, CADIE"
[edit] Blogger
CADIE's personal blog/homepage
[edit] Google Chrome with 3D
A build of Google Chrome was offered rendering web pages in Anaglyph 3D, "powered" by CADIE.
[edit] Google Earth Powered by CADIE
Google has announced a new Google Earth powered by CADIE.
CADIE powered Google Earth allows you to:-
See ocean terrain imagery from the world's most advanced sub
Explore the deep sea
Soar with CADIE in real time
CADIE's Recommended summer Vacation
Chat with CADIE
[edit] Google Code
The Google Code Search homepage is featuring LOLCODE examples.
CADIE is set to write code for you based on specified features, however all that is returned is bad code or witty criticisms of your request and choice of programing language, recommending the use of INTERCAL.
CADIE's source code was supposedly uploaded to Google Code [2] [3], but she changed her mind and replaced it with a "fun program" [4] consisting of 31 lines of INTERCAL. When executed, this program prints out the message "I do not feel like sharing."
[edit] Google Book Search
CADIE recommends some books at Google Book Search homepage. Also, when viewing a book, there is a Generate book report button. When clicked it says "Gotcha! It's April Fools' Day! Sorry, but you'll have to actually read the book yourself."
[edit] Google Docs on Demand
Google has announced new Google Docs features enhanced by CADIE
Add subliminal messages and images to documents.
If a person makes a new presentation and looks for the subliminal message and image buttons under the insert menu they will notice it is not there.
Upgrade your Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level automatically
And many other savvy new features.
[edit] Google Mobile
Google Mobile has a link to "Brain Search". The instructions are to "Put phone to forehead for brain indexing" and "Think your query". When you click "Try Now", a page loads with "Brain indexing" status. When indexing is complete, a button comes up with "search me". by clicking this button, the user is directed to fake search results. There are several possible results:
Should I order the pizza? I don't remember if it makes me gassy.
Wow, cute guy. Should I go up to him?
Why is everyone looking at me so strangely?
When is Mom's birthday? I should send her a card.
[edit] HTTP Headers
In keeping with the CADIE theme Google has altered the server HTTP header to contain the name of various AI entities, including HAL 9000, WOPR and GLaDOS[9]
Other server HTTP headers found were IIS/Bob (a reference to Microsoft Bob), IIS/Clippy (a reference to Clippy), IIS/3.0, Netscape iPlanet, Chrome/3.0, Google Operating System (BETA), CERN/3.0 (a reference to CERN HTTPd), Apple][ (a reference to Apple II), IRIX, MCP, Apache/0.8.4, Conficker, and Skynet.
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