Smart Compose will appear in the new Gmail

[Brink]

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/subject-write-emails-faster-smart-compose-gmail/

 

[mrjimphelps]

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?

 

[Brds7t7]

Where will this stop?

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!

 

[Anak]

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.

 

[lehnerus2000]

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.

No regulations are being enacted to punish them for security failures either.

 

[file3456]

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.

 

[Brds7t7]

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.

The way things are going lately, I'd say A) is looking the most likely!

Google is one scary company.

You're not wrong there - they're getting worse!
Almost a dozen Google employees quit over drone warfare project

 

[Barman58]

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 :sarc:

 

[Alejandro85]

No regulations are being enacted to punish them for security failures either.

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.

 

[lehnerus2000]

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.

 

[mrjimphelps]

Free software doesn't make the creators any money.

Actually, free software can make the creator a lot of money. If they can use that free software to spy on you and gather your information, they can then make money off of your information.

 

[lehnerus2000]

Actually, free software can make the creator a lot of money. If they can use that free software to spy on you and gather your information, they can then make money off of your information.

Whilst that can be true, commercial software does it, despite the creators being paid up front.

However that wasn't my point.
The point is that any real product and service you pay for, comes with consumer protections (guarantees, "anti-lemon" laws, etc.) the exception is software.

For example, MS should be facing multiple billions of dollars in lawsuits right now, because of all of their dodgy W10 & W7 updates, "malware-style" dialogue boxes and GWX.

How much money & time have they cost almost every other business in the world (not to mention the thousands if not millions of individual users)?

There's no "incentive" for MS to produce quality code, because they are never punished when they release garbage.

Actually CPUs seem to also be an exception.
If a car is a dud, the car maker has to fix it or replace it at no cost to the consumer.
It seems that Intel and AMD won't be forced to supply us with brand new replacement CPUs that don't have the Spectre & Meltdown hardware "defects".

IoT is going to be a total disaster, because all the manufacturers will claim any issues are software-related so they can't be punished.

 

[file3456]

It seems the Fed has to step in and set some sort of security standards because the companies sure don't care. IoT is a perfect example. They just slap that together, package it and sell it. No security once so ever. It's the reason why one of the largets DDoS attacks occurred in the first place.

As to Windows 10.. HAHA PT Barnum is often misquoted as saying, "there's a sucker born every minute."

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades...