Sending emails has been a part of most students’ and professionals’ lives. Not only does checking notifications from time to time become a norm, but it’s also imperative that it’s used effectively in order to avoid that line: “Oh, I forgot to send that email.”
In a report from Google, it said that it maximized the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the process of sending emails – making it seamless from both ends.
“Gmail has a long history of using the power of AI to help users in all aspects of their email journey,” says Chao Wang, a software engineer on the Gmail intelligence team.
Eager to know more?
The following are features enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) that make Gmail more helpful across a wide range of tasks, from helping you manage email that comes into assisting you in composing responses:
‘Help me write’
Using only a few simple instructions, “Help me write” can generate complete email drafts for you to use. It is now available as part of a program called Workspace Labs, and if you are interested in participating in the initiative, you may sign up online and indicate your interest in doing so here.
When you try to compose a new email in Gmail, you will notice an icon that says “Help me write” once you have access to the tool and can use it. Find the star with a pencil and write a question that explains what you’d like your email to be about.
The generative AI that is used in “Help me write” analyzes extensive language models to determine what word combination best conveys your need based on the prompt you provided.
Smart Compose
When you aren’t searching for assistance in composing an email draft from scratch but you would still want some recommendations along the way, Smart Compose is an excellent tool that you can use.
This function generates wording suggestions with the help of a hybrid language generation model, which is then executed on Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). One hit on the “Tab” button is all it takes to accept the suggestion and have those words added to your email draft. Previously, you would have had to manually type out each of those words.
While one of Smart Compose’s goals is to assist users in writing more effectively, the tool can also come as a significant plus for some people who are not fluent in writing in English. This is because Smart Compose uses artificial intelligence to analyze the user’s writing and suggest improvements.
Smart reply
Utilizing this feature will allow you to produce up to three different responses to emails that you receive. You can select and send your reply with just a couple of clicks or taps on the screen.
To select an appropriate set of potential replies from a big pool of varied, complex responses, Smart Reply makes use of cutting-edge machine learning technologies like deep neural networks.
Tabbed inbox
Your email inbox should not be a confusing labyrinth of clutter that requires you to search through it. This is when the tabbed inbox comes in handy. The tabs in Gmail are determined by a classification algorithm that makes use of machine learning to determine where an email should be placed depending on a variety of signals, such as who sent the email.
This makes it possible for you to examine the messages you typically want to receive first quickly, and it also automatically filters out the ones you can save for a later time. In addition, if a message shows up in one tab when it should be in another, you can drag the email to the correct categorization to assist the model in learning your individual preferences.
