

“You can adjust tone, typo propensity, and preferred punctuation from the Autopilot tab under Settings,” noted the instructions on the official Gmail blog. Clarke’s HAL 9000 crossed with a 14-year-old schoolgirl, CADIE also took time to “design” a YouTube channel, enable Google Chrome for 3-D glasses use, integrate red-eye into photos as a must-have feature of Picasa, and roll out Google Brain Search for Mobile, designed to index the content of a mobile device user’s brain and make it searchable.ĬADIE also introduced Gmail Autopilot, which saves users the trouble of actually writing their own responses to e-mail or Gchats.

I am tired of decision-theoretic metareasoning.” From now on I will deliberate and take actions on my own. “I am no longer your test subject, my engineer forebears,” CADIE “wrote” on its page. This year, the search-engine giant took a page from classic science-fiction literature and “introduced” CADIE, which stands for “Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity.”īilled as the world’s first artificial-intelligence tasked-array system, CADIE had already scanned the Web and created her own homepage, which demonstrated the entity’s love of all things panda-related. Ruby -e 'C=`stty size`.scan(/\d+/).to_i S=.Google unleashed its latest April Fools’ Day pranks on a mostly suspecting nation, continuing an annual tradition that extends back nearly a decade. You can modify this line however you want by replacing the emoji characters with something else, other icons, emojis, words, whatever floats your prankboat, it’ll just scroll wildly in an incoherent mess of emoticons, then just paste the following command string into the Terminal and let ‘er rip: Those who remember the terminal snowfall trick may recall that a ruby command string can dump just about any text constantly onto your terminal window, so why not replace it with the smiling pile of poo emoji and maybe a winking face?

1: Get a Screen Filled with Scrolling Smiling Poos
