question of the week.

If you did not know Cadie was a program, and the only contact you had was through the Internet, would you think that Cadie is human (maybe a young kid)? Based on your experience with Cadie, do you think artificial intelligence programs will act as if the were fully human in the future? (Support your answer with at least two research links.) If yes, what is to prevent governments from giving them citizenship rights? What is to prevent Cadie from taking over the Internet? (Or, is this all just an April Fool's day joke? Discuss the intricacies of online April's Fool's Day jokes, with google in particular, if that's your conclusion.)

I think that google has alot of power and can do whatever they want. I think that the cadie.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. I never heard of Cadie until I got in this class. If i didn't take class I Based on my expreience with Cadie, i think that artifical intelligence programs will start to act as humans. But they would have to program them to were the programs can't rebel against the human race, because i have seen movies where they created objects that function as humans and have a brain of their own.The cadie thing is really interesting because people really thought it was real. But it actually isnt i guess. I think i would like to make something like this and make people do it.

*http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220113/posts
*http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/89pv/cadie_google_cognitive_autoheuristic/