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Gmail's 'Smart Compose' Feature Will Write Emails For You (theverge.com)
Google announced a new feature called Smart Compose at its annual developer conference today. "Smart Compose will suggest complete sentences within the body of an email as you are writing," reports The Verge. "It will operate in the background, and if you see a phrase pop up that you like, just hit tab to select it, and the text will auto-populate." From the report: Smart Compose also recognizes context. For example, if it's Friday, it might suggest closing out your message with "Have a great weekend!" Google says the Smart Compose feature will start to appear for consumers over the next few weeks and will be integrated for G Suite customers within the next few months.
Make your time!
Coming soon: an option to outsource these messages to BeautifulHandWrittenLetters.com
Yes I'm aware such services already exist (for mailed letters at least).
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Nihilism is like a painted flower; it never wilts.
A cranky old lady asked you a question?
Whiskey on the table gambles with lives, happiness, and even destiny itself!
A setback of the heart would scare any linguist away.
Have a great weekend!
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Sent from my Gmail account.
How do I turn it off?
As long as I can turn it off easily, I would be OK with it.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
Any chance we could add this to the phone Spanky uses to send his tweets?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
to their servers as you type for analysis purposes, because doing it locally means they can't have an excuse to snoop into your life.
This feels like goog is going to use this to train its AI beastie to be able to sound human, maybe even pass a Turing test with some folk.
uh what the ever living fuck do you think smtp is. do you seriously think this is the thing that will allow them to read your email
Dear Google,
We have patent on this see you in court!
Thanks, MS legal bot.
Anyone's style in particular, or just a great homogenised mass of google-analysed text? It'd be funny to see it set on the style of Charles Bukowski.
There is a book called "Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears", where basically the Avogadro Corporation is the functional equivalent of Google and they accidentally create an A.I. via an email language optimization program. https://www.amazon.com/Avogadr...
I see thousands of kids writing their book reports and essays using this.
I've been testing this feature in alpha. I've taken every recommendation, and received three promotions since I started using it!
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
I wonder what would happen if there was such a feature on Trump's twitter account?
Take the gramma out of grammarly, and let it go out with Clippy for a one night stand, and this is what you get...
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
Which is having the AI select the suggestions to use.
Post may contain irony: discontinue use if experiencing mood swings, nausea or elevated blood pressure.
I can't even trust the fucking *autocorrect* on my phone, using Google's keyboard.
I remember sigs. Oh, a simpler time!
uh what the ever living fuck do you think smtp i
SMTP is the protocol that transfers my PGP encrypted email to the destination whereupon it is decrypted on the receipient's device.
Is anyone not routinely using encryption any more given that if you don't your email is visible to anyone in the middle? And given we have had email encryption since about 1993? And given that it's an official RFC standard now?
Oh right, I suppose the people who like big bro^w^w Google looking over their shoulders constantly don't.
uh, you realize the timing between keystrokes provides all kinds of creepy information? also analysis of all the things you were going to say, but decided not to (backspace)
Facebook has been doing that for years...
If only I can get it to attend meetings with the PHBs for me as well, I'll finally be able to go into the lab and get some real work done.
I use it for all my Gmails, the best email service available today, while enjoying a fresh Coca Cola - Taste the Feeling! When I'm done composing my email I typically hop in my Chevrolet, the Heartbeat of America, and head to the store to buy some beef - it's what's for dinner!
I sure am glad for this auto-composition feature, because I almost forgot to buy my wife a birthday card from Hallmark, for when you care enough to send the very best. Thankfully I was reminded automatically when I logged in using my iPhone - think different! The reminder also appeared on my Windows 10 computer, empowering us all!
I can assure you there is no privacy problem involved with having marketing companies composing our communications for us. I wish this feature was available on my phone from AT&T, because AT&T is bigger than T-Mobile, faster than Verizon Wireless and more reliable than everybody!
Some people cannot recognize a good thing when they see it, and may need to upgrade their prescriptive eyewear at Lenscrafters - they see to every detail, you see to perfection!
And the system will integrate the chosen options, or sentences written in-place of the ignored options, into their AI to further improve it.
Should be neat to see in action after some time.
Fix the horrible way multiple messages in a thread are displayed currently. It's so unintuitive, and I'm not just speaking for myself either.
This will be great for class papers.
Now instead of simply mis-completeing a word it will miscomplete whole sentences. Then paragraphs. You could accidentally break up with your girl friend with a letter.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
You are a smart piece of Compost
I hate to break it to you skippy, but SMTP is not interactive chat. You compose your message, click send, and only then is an SMTP connection established and message sent in one blob of data. Unless you're using a dodgy spyware mail client, nobody gets to see your keystroke timing.
How long until Big Brother Google will ONLY allow you to email (capitalist-approved, SJW-safe) sentences "suggested" by its AI?
You type: "I was just goin"
Suggestion: "I was just going to go out and by a Google Home because they're awesome!"
You type: "I can't belie"
Suggestion: "I can't believe you don't have a Google Pixel yet, they're awesome!"
Yup, I totally get it.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
had google write an email in one of my gmail accounts to my other gmail account, and then have google write the response in that account?
all the misuses of there, their, they're, your, you're, its, it's, seem, seam, peak, peek, then, then, loose, lose, etc., I'm all for it.
Shall I burn bridges as you go?
1. Give you lots of money
2. Fire you
3. Kill you and chop you into pieces
Press tab to complete and hit send
If Google's so smart, why does it end every sentence with an exclamation point? I guess it learned style on Twitter.
Now, those 'dear John', 'crazed stalker', 'cheap skank', 'think of the children', 'look, terrorist', 'fanatic judgement' missives will write themselves.
... now you can have badly-written emails, full of over-used, outworn, inappropriate cliches. Exactly as the PHB would compose them.
Because that is exactly what this software, as described, actually sets out to do. Writing good English is a challenging task that demands a fair amount of knowledge and judgment. One day software will be able to do it well, but that day is still very far off.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
"I'm a Nigerian Prince..." is now all the scammers have to type, Google does the rest.
https://xkcd.com/1068/
Even though I don't drink, I would like a robo-assistant to be able to generate drunken emails in the middle of the night to random folks on my contacts list. Can it do that? If not, meh.
Err...This is a feature in *gmail* which already sends all your complete emails to/via google, and constantly saves drafts of your incomplete emails to google's servers. Exactly what *extra* information do you think Google will get from you via this new feature?
I'd actually pay good money to have everything in an e-mail easily predicted by this tool re-displayed in a very small font of a very dull grey.
The stuff remaining in black would at least have a hope of a glimmer of reflecting an IQ point bent to task by the document's author.
Conveniently for the counter-pendulum yet to come, the automatic is also the irrelevant.
Bonus: the amount of correctly predicted text can be instrumented behind the scenes by corporate head office to rationalize AI-driven workforce slimdowns.
until I don't have to participate in my life at all.
This reminds me of a poster I used to have- "If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon." I think that should be updated to, "If an AI can write your emails for you, you probably have a very easy job. The kinds robots are already doing." https://despair.com/products/m...