Email makes it easy to share information with just about anyone—friends, colleagues and family—but drafting a message can take some time. Last year, we introduced Smart Reply in Gmail to help you quickly reply to incoming emails. Today, we're announcing Smart Compose, a new feature powered by artificial intelligence, to help you draft emails from scratch, faster.
Draft emails quickly with confidence
From your greeting to your closing (and common phrases in between), Smart Compose suggests complete sentences in your emails so that you can draft them with ease. Because it operates in the background, you can write an email like you normally would, and Smart Compose will offer suggestions as you type. When you see a suggestion that you like, click the “tab” button to use it.
Smart Compose helps save you time by cutting back on repetitive writing, while reducing the chance of spelling and grammatical errors. It can even suggest relevant contextual phrases. For example, if it's Friday it may suggest "Have a great weekend!" as a closing phrase.
Get started
Over the next few weeks, Smart Compose will appear in the new Gmail for consumers, and will be made available for G Suite customers in the workplace in the coming months.
To get started, make sure you’ve enabled the new Gmail by going to Settings > “Try the new Gmail.” Next, go to the general tab in your settings, scroll down and enable “experimental access.” If you want to switch back, you can always uncheck the box.
Source: https://blog.google/products/gmail/s...compose-gmail/
Not interested in Google AI getting to "know" me and then writing my emails for me. Where will this stop? When the Google AI bot totally pretends to be me (and does a convincing job of it) and does things "on my behalf", without my even knowing about it?
It won't unfortunately. In a few years every electrical/tech product we buy will have SMART/AI features built into it. It's already getting that way now. Not something I'm looking forward to either. They're the first things I remove/disable, but in a few years we probably won't have that option.
Why I need a fridge to tell me when to reorder milk, or when it's going off, I'll never know. I'll just do what I've been doing for the past 30 years - look on the label!
I notice but ignore any suggestions that any of the "auto-fills" try to get me to accept. I usually lose my train of thought, yea I know it's a short train but it's the only one I get to ride...
I've said it before; These companies are in such a hurry to get their IoT out that security is that last thing they worry about.
Behold the power of analytical user data. Wait till people opt for the smart chip brain implant in place of a smart phone. Then it will evolve to a form of augmented AI withen your eyes where you can interact with invisible images in front of you all side swiping left and right, up and down like a mad man moving his/her arms at nothing.
Okay, okay. I have a very god imagination. But to tell you the truth, everything I seem to think of becomes a reality. And I can only imagine it will become a reality if we are all still here providing we A) don't blow ourselves up with an A-bomb, or B) humanity manages to survive a catastrophic natural disaster like a super volcano explosion or an asteroid impact.
Google is one scary company.
The way things are going lately, I'd say A) is looking the most likely!
You're not wrong there - they're getting worse!
Almost a dozen Google employees quit over drone warfare project
So 0.0162179695102173% (approximately), of Google employees have resigned, due to Google Taking up with the devil, or turning all patriotic, depending on your point of view. I can't see this effecting the value of the company much. The report is totally devoid of any facts, they say a dozen, but wont even commit to that, they also say that the system provides AI assessment or results and also state it's used to select targets, all of course are related to a secret project that they have not been read into ...
I'm sure it got lots of clicks for the advertisers, which is all it needed to do
Not only that, the license of pretty much every single piece of software out there (or "terms of service" for services) almost universally disclaims responsabilities from the developer, making the user liable for any failure, which..... doesn't makes any sense to me. And that's not only with proprietary software from big companies, almost all open source and commercial software out there does the very same thing.
Technology went a tremendous way forward, but laws are still a century behind.
Agreed. :)
Free software doesn't make the creators any money, so I am willing to accept "caveat emptor".
However, the sooner commercial software companies (Adobe, MS, etc.) are subjected to the same standards that companies that make real products are (e.g. car makers) the sooner we’ll see actual improvements in code security and stability.
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