Hate replying to emails? Google launches GMail Autopilot
Written by JG Mason on April 1st, 2009 in News.
Section: Web, Web Apps, Websites, Google
GMail users logging into their mail this morning are the first to find out about the new Autopilot feature. Autopilot will craft the perfect response to your emails based on preferences you set. This product comes straight out of Google’s CADIE, an artificial intelligence project.
Google touts Autopilot as the “easiest email ever” and offers the service not just for mail but also for chats. Autopilot allows users to set preferences, controlling things like capitalization, typos, brevity, and even emoticon use. Autopilot only needs to scan about 100 of your emails to mirror your style. Reportedly, the quality of responses via chats declines after three messages.
The feature page shows off some of Autopilots best features such as responding to business inquiries. As you see, Autopilot can be helpful in capitalizing quickly on business deals, like this one with a Nigerian Prince:
Or even utilizing advanced artificial intelligence to offer suggestions on your relationships, like this one:
Best of all is I am sure you can only get GMail Autopilot today, you know, April Fools’ Day.
Product Page: [Google]
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