Gmail: Google’s big AI push: Four AI-powered features in Gmail you can use – Times of India

Google’s AI push continues to get stronger with each passing week. The tech giant has revealed a host of AI-related features that are now in Gmail, the world’s most popular email service. Here are four AI-powered features in Gmail that you can use:
Use Smart compose
Not a new feature as such but extremely useful. According to Google, Smart compose uses a hybrid language generation modeland runs it on Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to show wording suggestions. A simple tap of the “Tab” button accepts the suggestion and incorporates those words into your email draft without you having to fully type them out, explains Google.
Tabbed inbox
If you are a Gmail users, then you would have seen how there are different inboxes for different things. Primary, Promotion and Social are among the few tabbed inboxes Gmail has. Gmail uses machine learning on a classification system, which then decides where the email should go. The messages then go into one of five different inbox tabs: Primary, Promotions, Social, Updates and Forums. (You can use as many or as few of these tabs as you want.) “To automatically categorise these emails, Gmail uses a combination of neural network-based machine learning and heuristic algorithms (heuristic algorithms use AI-generated decision trees to make choices),” Google said in a blog post.
Summary cards
Another feature that has been pretty much around for a while and uses AI and machine learning is Summary Cards. Any time you book a flight and get a ticket in your inbox, chances are a summary card will appear, giving you the important details in a concise manner. Google says that this done by “using heuristic and machine learning algorithms, summary card technology automatically looks for certain data from inbound emails to understand what type of message it is and the most important content in the message.”
Need a nudge?
Nudging is the first Gmail AI feature that runs on both emails you have received and sent. It is a feature that reminds you to reply to a mail or an important message. “For inbound emails, Nudging uses a machine learning model to detect which emails you haven’t replied to and predict which of them you’d normally answer,” explained Google in a blog post.