Google says it’s introducing a new feature called ‘AI Inbox,’ using Gemini which summarises all your emails, but promises it won’t train its models on your emails.
Google argues that email has changed since 2004, as users are now receive hundreds of emails every week, and the numbers keeps rising.
With AI Overviews in Gmail, Google says it can address the issue of dealing with a large number of emails and allow you to ask anything about your inbox.
To give you an example of what it is capable of, you might be looking at a list of messages, as emails can be long conversations, especially in the business environments, and you have drudge through the long list.
Similar to Google Search, AI Overviews summarises your email and provides a short overview, so you don’t have to read all previous emails in the thread. This feature is an add-on and free of charge.
AI Inbox
AI Inbox is a new section that appears above the traditional Inbox on the left sidebar, and it’s like your personalised briefing option.
“AI Inbox is like having a personalised briefing, highlighting to-dos and catching you up on what matters,” say Google.
“It helps you prioritise, identifying your VIPs based on signals like people you email frequently, those in your contacts list, and relationships it can infer from message content,” the company added.
Google confirmed that you’ll be able to turn off the AI features in Gmail if you choose to, and it’s promising that it won’t train its AI models on your emails.
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Opinion
It looks like a smart move to utilise AI and make your email account easier to organise and use. Offering this service as a cost free feature to enhance the user experience may well be beneficial and become the norm on email accounts.
However, do I trust Google not to change the terms and conditions at a later stage when millions of people start to use it, not really no. emails have a huge amount of data going back and forward every minute of every day around the world.
This information would be of enormous benefit to Google and Gemini would be given a massive leap forward if it did train its models on your emails, just saying.
