Gmail is Now Blocking 100 Million Extra Spam Messages Every Day With AI (theverge.com)

Google has recruited its in-house machine learning framework, TensorFlow, to help train additional spam filters for Gmail users. With the new filters in place as of last month, the company claims Gmail is now blocking an extra 100 million spam messages every day. From a report: In the context of Gmail's 1 billion-plus users, this isn't necessarily a huge gain -- it works out as one extra blocked spam email per 10 users -- but Google says Gmail already blocks 99.99 percent of spam, so working out what constitutes that last sliver of a percentage is hard.

Comments

Re:Statistical filters... not AI.

[Anonymous Coward]

if it's software it's ai
if it's material it's 3d printed

Re:Blocked or filtered to Spam folder ?

[RhettLivingston]

I've probably been using gmail as long as you. Might have even got the invitation from the same place.

I'm fairly positive that all spam goes to the spam folder. I can't remember the last time I had to mark a spam message. I do look at the spam folder periodically for its entertainment value and to keep up with the flavor of the current scams. I haven't had a false positive in many years.