Artificial intelligence became the protagonist of Google I/O 2024And this shouldn’t surprise us. After all, developing better artificial intelligence is one of Google’s 2024 goals, and we can expect artificial intelligence to be included in all of the company’s products.

Now Google has announced that Gmail will be much smarter thanks to Gemini. The email platform will integrate Google AI and give you search and summarize email threads using prompts It answers with a single click and offers truly smart answer suggestions.

Gemini will be able to read, summarize and reply to emails directly from your mobile phone

What makes these suggested answers “really smart” is that they contextual answersThat is, they take into account the actions the user takes in Gmail to understand the question or situation we will be responding to.

For example, during the show, Google entered an email thread about repairing the roof. In this example, the Google executive stated that she spoke to her husband via email and also requested various estimates for the repair job.

With Gemini, Gmail will be able to create summaries of emails and topics.

He went into an email thread and asked Gmail (or rather Gemini) to summarize the whole thing and present the most important points. He then entered a simple text prompt asking Gemini to summarize all the quotes to find the best offer, and eventually sent a quick response using the suggested answers and signed a contract with the service. This answer took into account previous searches and summaries.

Currently, Gmail already offers reply suggestions thanks to its “Smart Replies” feature, but new replies suggested by Gemini “Contextual smart answers” is much more detailed and precise considering the user’s activity regarding the response to be given.

Also in Gmail a new Gemini button within the app For mobile phones, when pressed it will offer the user some suggestions, such as summarizing the email or email thread or creating smart replies.

The idea of ​​these abilities simplify the process of managing email and be more productive. While it is true that we can currently copy the entire content of an email and take it to the Gemini app to perform these tasks, the fact that Gemini integrates directly into Gmail simplifies the process and saves us time.

Gemini email digest in Gmail will reach Labs users same month. Contextual smart responses, on the other hand, will arrive throughout July.

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