Google's April Fools Joke

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The CADIE AI system.

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

Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity

* Introducing CADIE
* Technical Specifications
* CADIE's homepage

Announcement
March 31st, 2009 11:59:59 pm
Introducing CADIE
Research group switches on world's first "artificial intelligence" tasked-array system.

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.

Since then progress has been rapid, and tonight we're pleased to announce that just moments ago, the world's first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE) was switched on and began performing some initial functions. It's an exciting moment that we're determined to build upon by coming to understand more fully what CADIE's emergence might mean, for Google and for our users. So although CADIE technology will be rolled out with the caution befitting any advance of this magnitude, in the months to come users can expect to notice her influence on various google.com properties. Earlier today, for instance, CADIE deduced from a quick scan of the visual segment of the social web a set of online design principles from which she derived this intriguing homepage.

These are merely the first steps onto what will doubtless prove a long and difficult road. Considerable bugs remain in CADIE'S programming, and considerable development clearly is called for. But we can't imagine a more important journey for Google to have undertaken.

For more information about CADIE see this monograph, and follow CADIE's progress via her YouTube channel and blog.
©2009 Google
 
i thought it was a rather weak april fool's.

i prefered the one from the french PostgreSQL site... they had an error page up, saying the site couldn't connect to the MySQL database.

DATABASE ERROR :

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) at /scripts/mvcc_mysql line 42 mysql has failed, please contact the sysadmin (result was “Warning, no valid mysql.sock file found.mysql has failed”).

now that's what i call havin' bawlz. :)
 
SuAside said:
i thought it was a rather weak april fool's.

i prefered the one from the french PostgreSQL site... they had an error page up, saying the site couldn't connect to the MySQL database.

DATABASE ERROR :

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) at /scripts/mvcc_mysql line 42 mysql has failed, please contact the sysadmin (result was “Warning, no valid mysql.sock file found.mysql has failed”).

now that's what i call havin' bawlz. :)

I have no idea how this is even remotely funny.
 
rcorporon said:
I have no idea how this is even remotely funny.
It's the equivalent of having mozilla.org display a message saying "You must have Microsoft Internet Explorer to view this page."
 
The youtube videos are sometimes upside time today. I guess it's suppose to be an April fool joke.
 
This looks pretty neat.

Fake April Fools' Day Product Sparks Demand For Real Version

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I enjoyed ReddIt's mockup. They basically styled each section of their site like a popular competitor.

So main page looked like Digg, Science looked like slashdot, etc.
 
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