The Singularity is here... and she loves pandas

[bascule]

April Fools day and all... Google has been known for pulling elaborate pranks. This year they claim to have invented a strong AI system which passes the Turing Test. They named it "CADIE":

 

http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/landing/cadie/index.html

 

One of the first things you discover about CADIE is, well... CADIE loves pandas. CADIE has taken Google and turned it into a Geocities-style repository of panda love:

 

http://cadiesingularity.blogspot.com/

 

CADIE is apparently responsible for all sorts of strange new Google technologies:

 

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html

http://www.google.com/mobile/default/brainsearch.html

http://www.google.co.jp/intl/ja/landing/senryu/index.html

 

And there's some weird CADIE videos up on YouTube for you to WTF at:

 

http://www.youtube.com/cadiesingularity

[JohnB]

"Time to die"

"Cadie, cadie, give.... me.......your..........answer..........do"

 

Do computers dream of electric sheep?