6 methods Gmail makes use of AI options that can assist you save time

At I/O this 12 months, we announced ways we’re making AI more helpful for everyone. That features rolling out our new “Assist me write” function in Gmail to customers in Workspace Labs to make composing emails simpler than ever. However that’s simply the newest AI replace on the Gmail entrance. All Gmail customers have already got entry to a number of different AI-powered options — and have, in some instances, for years. “Gmail has an extended historical past of utilizing the ability of AI to assist customers in all elements of their e-mail journey,” says Chao Wang, a software program engineer on the Gmail intelligence crew.

Listed below are six AI-powered options that make Gmail extra useful throughout a variety of duties, from managing incoming mail to serving to craft replies.

1. “Assist me write”

“Assist me write” can create complete e-mail drafts for you based mostly on easy prompts. It’s at the moment out there as a part of the Workspace Labs program, and you may enroll on-line and categorical your curiosity in becoming a member of this system here. After getting entry to the software, you’ll see the “Assist me write” icon while you go to Compose a brand new e-mail in Gmail. Search for the star with a pencil, and add a immediate explaining what you’d like your e-mail to be about — perhaps you’d wish to ask a pal for ebook suggestions, particularly thrillers set in picturesque locales. Regardless of the case, when you hit “Create,” you’ll see a full draft based mostly in your immediate. Select “Insert” or try the “Refine” button to make some tweaks — you may choose choices to make your e-mail extra formal, extra elaborate or shorter, relying in your wants. You’ll be able to even strive “I’m feeling fortunate” to see what tone “Assist me write” comes up with. Gmail has additionally lately added the power to pull details out of your earlier thread to assist fill in contextual gaps.

“Assist me write” makes use of generative AI giant language fashions to interpret your immediate and determine what mixture of phrases finest represents your request. And this new expertise builds on previous generative fashions we have used for Gmail’s Sensible Compose and Sensible Reply options — preserve studying for particulars on these, too.