Computer, respond to this email

What I love about working at Google is the opportunity to harness cutting-edge machine intelligence for users’ benefit. Two recent Research Blog posts talked about how we’ve used machine learning in the form of deep neural networks to improve voice search and YouTube thumbnails. Today we can share something even wilder — Smart Reply, a deep neural network that writes email.

I get a lot of email, and I often peek at it on the go with my phone. But replying to email on mobile is a real pain, even for short replies. What if there were a system that could automatically determine if an email was answerable with a short reply, and compose a few suitable responses that I could edit or send with just a tap?

Read more at http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/computer-respond-to-this-email.html

Source: Google Research Blog

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