Google does love a good April Fool’s Day joke, and their latest, “Gmail Autopilot“, may be one of their best.

It may be a bit too obvious to truly be a “good” April Fool’s Day prank, but it is still funny.  The basic concept behind Gmail Autopilot is that you will no longer have to be bothered with answering your emails as Gmail can do it all for you.  They give some great examples of how you could use just such a feature.

I especially like the first one… SO helpful!

They even went so far as to show you a control panel that lets you set things like capitalization, brevity, typos and exclamations so you can be sure these auto emails sound as much like you as possible.

Course, they also address one possible snag to this system:

What happens if a sender and recipient both have Autopilot on?

Two Gmail accounts can happily converse with each other for up to three messages each. Beyond that, our experiments have shown a significant decline in the quality ranking of Autopilot’s responses and further messages may commit you to dinner parties or baby namings in which you have no interest.