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EARTHDATE: November 22, 2015

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REAL LIFE NEWS: GOOGLE MAIL WILL ANSWER YOUR MAIL

by Hazed

Google is introducing a new feature to its gmail system that will help you to manage your inbox. It’s called Smart Reply, and it will help you to reply to mail by suggesting short responses, based on the contents.

Shades of the much-hated Microsoft paperclip? “It looks like you are replying to an invitation to a birthday party. Would you like some help with that?”

Google says the app will use machine learning to “recognise emails that need responses” and make suggestions for the replies. It will improve over time by learning from the user’s choice of response.

The new feature will be available to those who use their Inbox feature on Apple and Android phones and who update to the latest version.

So what happens when both the sender and receiver use this? As it gets more sophisticated it may be possible to just get the software to deal with trivial email without asking the user for input, which could result in the programs simply emailing themselves, back and forth, holding conversations of their own…

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34714601/google-smart-reply-will-suggest-answers-for-your-emails

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