This is the era of Smarties! From the people to phones, all is smart. We have smart phones, cameras, televisions and a whole other range of smart products. Let’s not forget the smart hover board as being the latest in this list. What can be next? Well, here to come is the smart mail. How did a mail get smart? Read on and find out.
Google has now unveiled the new phase of smartness- Smart reply. This newly unveiled feature of Gmail makes mailing simply fabulous on the Android as well as the IOS. When you are stuck between “ I want to reply, ” but “ I am too lazy to reply”, the smart reply can really help. It can generate replies and reply on your behalf.
It generates about three possible responses based on the context and content of the email that you wish to reply to. The responses also rely on neural networks and makes use of machine intelligence to generate appropriate replies.
The system further studies the end-users’ responses to the suggestions to detail its handouts. Google spokesperson Emma Ogiemwanye is reported to have said that currently the repository has 20,000 reply that is to grow with time. Smart reply will soon become available in the App store and Google play. As of for now it is only available in English.
How does it function?
It is primarily based on two recurrent neural networks. One of these two decodes the incoming email and the other anticipates the responses. The neural network responsible for encoding scans the all the incoming emails one word after the other and produces a list of numbers- named as a vector that somehow understands the essence of the mails. The second network borrows the essence from the encoding network and creates a grammatically correct reply.
What about the privacy?
Google says- The privacy of the users’ is protected as there are no humans involved in this process. Yet its also been on the discussion that the responses collected will be stored in Googles servers and it can be fed as an information to their ad analytics. Google in the past has shown interest in the collection of data, for improving their advert analytic.
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