Google brings AI to Gmail with smart inbox and email search – Firstpost

After enabling Google overview to generate AI responses to people’s questions at the top of the search results, the company is taking a similar step by embedding Artificial Intelligence into another ubiquitously used service, Google Mail.

The AI version will speed up and guide users manage their bloated inboxes and speed up the process of writing email. Some features are free and the others require subscription.  

Google this month, will roll out this version of Gmail AI version. Gmail users can now look up emails by typing a question, such as “What’s the name of the job recruiter I met last month?”  

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The company is also testing a similar type of inbox, which is set to release this year later. In addition, Google unveiled tools to streamline writing, including an automatic proofreader and response generator.

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But if the novel AI technology becomes widely adopted by the users, this could be the biggest challenge to Gmail, in decades. It may transform the way people manually check their inboxes all day long into a more streamlined experience, an overview that people look at periodically.

All of this can cause implications and invade privacy.  To make the new features work, Gemini, Google’s AI assistant, needs access to a user’s entire inbox. The company insists that while Gemini systems analyse our emails, there are protections in place so that its employees do not read them.

The AI inbox will be released in the coming months, followed by similar updates. Managing an email has also been a tedious job. When someone sends you an email, you can read and reply to it, delete it or ignore it. The option of ignoring an email takes the least effort, but unread notes pile up over time and add to stress.

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Google’s recent AI Inbox fundamentally changes the way people check email. It gives a high-level overview of what you need to know and do presently based on recent emails by looking at conversations and creating action items and summaries of topics.

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