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In a list of the top 3 things I hate about my job, all of them are reading my email. Nothing is worse than getting into a task, only to be distracted and swept away by an onslaught of annoying emails, ensuring that you will never get any actual work done. Gmail feels us and in Ex Machina style has created the AI of the future that does the best thing an AI could ever be programmed to do – answer your email.
Gmail calls this sorcery “deep learning,” and basically what it does is read your emails for you and then draft brief responses based on the content and how it thinks you would respond. This technology creates not one, not two, but three responses to the email, allowing you to simply choose both the content and tone in which you would like to respond.
Per Wired:
“The network will tailor both the tone and content of the responses to the email you’re reading,” says Google product management director Alex Gawley. It gives you three of these responses, and you can then choose the one that best suits what you want to say.
If this is the future, I’m on board. The only negative here? Get ready to say goodbye to that handy “Oh, I didn’t see your email” excuse. On the other hand, you’ve got a great new excuse when your boss asks you about that angry customer service email – “Gmail made me do it.”.
[via Wired]
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This sounds really awesome. But now I will have to read four emails for every one I receive? That part sounds awful.
Google calls this sorcery “deep learning”. I call it “Skynet Beta”. Also there’s a high chance this thing would make me accidentally tell my boss to go fuck himself.
I have nothing to hide but call me old fashioned but I don’t want Google going through and reading through all my emails (I know they have access anyway) and responding for me.
My whole career is based on “oh, I didn’t see your email.”
Shouldn’t it be “answering emails are hard” instead of “is hard”?
Yikes, I’m an engineer. Werdz are not my forte. I’m sorry I offended everyone on the internet
Maybe don’t attempt to correct people’s sentence structure then
Umm…It was a question? So that means I was asking people to see if its right. Ya know, trying to learn things.
“Answering” is a gerund and the noun/subject of the phrase “Answering Emails Is Hard.” Gerunds always require a singular verb in the subject-verb agreement.
While we’re having lessons on words (and at the risk of getting downvoted some more)… If you say “shouldn’t it be…?” it sounds like a polite way of correcting someone without sounding like a dick, whereas “should it be…?” would have sounded more like an actual question.
Rearrange the sentence and read it with “are” and see if that works for ya
Try again there sport
Answering is singular, while emails is plural. That’s probably what threw you, but in this case we are talking about answering not emails.
See? This is the clarification I was looking for. Thanks stranger from the internet.
it’s worth a google