Since these things only last one day, I thought it would be nice to memorialize Google's April Fool's joke of 2009.  It was based around Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) gone wrong.   If you missed it they rolled out a fictitious service called CADIE, an acronym of course: Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity.

A what?  Well ...in short think of it as A.I. for your tasks. One feature is/was Autopilot; the auto e-mail responder that does more than reply. I profiles the e-mail sent then replies to the e-mail message based on the content.  Waves of Hal 9000 flood my senses when I think of this.  That is where the joke lies. Imagine a service created by Google that goes horribly wrong.

Here are two sample replies.  The first one  delineates the value of your relationship with the sender and provides them a report, hilarious.  The second is a sample reply based on matching the style of the original message.  Very funny stuff.

There was much more to the CADIE spoof.  But you get the idea.