Smart Reply Tool Lets Inbox by Gmail Users Respond Quickly to Emails

Google’s latest feature for Inbox, the email app it unveiled last October, attempts to make situations like this easier to handle by suggesting responses to emails. You can send the reply right away or edit and add to the automatic response.

Reading the subject matter of an email, the feature will present three suggested responses for you to click on and hit send to save time. The feature harnesses technology from Google’s extensive work around machine learning to recognize emails that require a quick response and generate a natural language response on the fly, Google Software Engineer Bálint Miklós wrote in a blog Tuesday. The company says it will scan all users emails in order to help save you time on responses, CNN reports. Smart Reply learns your message reply patterns based on the suggestions you pick or don’t pick from its list of replies.

The suggested replies included: “I don’t, sorry”, “I will have to look for it”, and “I’ll send it to you”. “In developing Smart Reply we adhered to the same rigorous user privacy standards we’ve always held”, said Google Senior Research Scientist Greg Corrado. The email tool is known for its automation features and Smart Reply aims to cut down the amount of time you have to spend replying to messages in Android and iOS. Smart Reply’s AI technology is similar to the system used by the Google search engine, called RankBrain.

Smart tech has become very popular nowadays, because it lets people to get interacted more quickly and efficiently with their work.

Since the launch of its most recent email app, Inbox, Google has lauded its ability to function like an assistant.

More impressively, deep learning will be able to offer responses that not only respond to the email, but also copy the tone and diction of the email.

The so-called “smart reply” identifies which incoming emails deserve quick responses, then figures out the appropriate wording.