Google is bringing A.I. chat to Gmail and Docs
Google is set to bring artificial intelligence (A.I.) features to its Gmail and Docs apps, as the company continues its push to make its suite of productivity tools more “intelligent”.
The new A.I.-powered features, which are currently being tested, include the ability to suggest relevant documents based on the content of an email, and the ability to create a “smart” reply to a message.
Google is also working on a “smart compose” feature for Gmail, which will use A.I. to suggest completing sentences as you type, and a “suggested actions” feature for Docs, which will suggest next steps based on the content of a document.
The new features are part of Google’s wider push to make its productivity apps more “intelligent”, with the company recently announcing that it is working on A.I.-powered features for its Calendar and Drive apps.
google is bringing ai chat to gmail and docs
Google is set to bring artificial intelligence (A.I.) features to its Gmail and Docs apps, as the company continues its push to make its suite of productivity tools more “intelligent”.
The new A.I.-powered features, which are currently being tested, include the ability to suggest relevant documents based on the content of an email, and the ability to create a “smart” reply to a message.
Google is also working on a “smart compose” feature for Gmail, which will use A.I. to suggest completing sentences as you type, and a “suggested actions” feature for Docs, which will suggest next steps based on the content of a document.
The new features are part of Google’s wider push to make its productivity apps more “intelligent”, with the company recently announcing that it is working on A.I.-powered features for its Calendar and Drive apps.
Google’s push to make its productivity apps more “intelligent” is part of a wider trend in the tech industry of using A.I. to make software more useful. Microsoft, for example, has used A.I. to improve the search features in its Office 365 productivity suite, and is also working on an A.I.-powered “personal assistant” called Cortana.
The addition of A.I. features to Gmail and Docs is likely to be welcomed by users, who will benefit from the increased functionality of the apps. However, it remains to be seen how well the new features will be received by privacy-conscious users, who may be concerned about the amount of data Google will be able to collect about them.
