Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Have you seen Gmail's April Fools?

There is a link to this on the gmail site. They have a new thing called "Gmail AutoPilot." It's almost as good as their idea last year about Gmail Custom Time. (https://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html)

CADIE: Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity


I thought this was funny:

What happens if a sender and recipient both have Autopilot on?

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.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

They had me fooled for a little bit. Earlier versions of Dragon Naturally Speaking program analyzed your documents or email to understand your style of writing to help it understand what you spoke. So there was a bit of truth in their joke.