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Gmail's new AI feature will soon write entire emails for you, Google announces

Goodbye to annoying busy work.

Credit: Screenshot: Google

Gmail will soon have a feature that will write entire emails for you using AI, Google announced on Wednesday at its Google I/O event.

The feature, dubbed "help me write," is basically an expansion of the auto-replies and generative text that Google already uses in Gmail. While announcing the feature, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, used an example of asking an airline for a refund for a flight. The AI feature pulls info from previous exchanges with the airline and creates an entire message asking for the refund. You can then edit that message to your liking and send it away.

sundar pinchai standing in front of screen displaying "help me write" feature
Credit: Screenshot: Google
Image of ai-generated email
This is the example email of what AI could generate in an email. Credit: Screenshot: Google

The idea behind the feature is to save folks time on relatively mindless emails. Anything that can help me clear inboxes is likely welcome help to people everywhere.

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  1. I hate this. We've already become so disconnected.

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  2. “Listen, let my AI talk to your AI and they’ll work something out.”

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    1. exactly what i wanted to comment xD ai will write a long email, other ai will summarize it for you, so we can all avoid writing a short one getting straight to the point instead lol

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    2. exactly what i been doing for a ya. Email bot against hundreds of scammer email bots lol

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  3. Honestly I welcome it to some extent. Professional emails I don't really care about so they can take those over, but my PERSONAL responses usually sound like how I talk so I'll take those myself.

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    1. Never mind that almost everywhere I've worked that's enterprise uses outlook so this is a bit useless. Google has too many security risks for them and a lot of companies don't trust AI to not spy on them.

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    2. This AI learns your writing style and adapts to it.

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    3. You do know that Microsoft (owner of Outlook) is the one who owns ChatGPT, and they're working on the same kinds of integrations.

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    4. they haven’t integrated Chat GPT into outlook. And many many companies are blocking ChatGPT due to prompt injection risks and their own staff putting code into it. It has nothing to do with who owns it and Microsoft only put a majority stake into it as far as I’ve read the company itself still has majority control through its non prof. Microsoft is using it to work with their search. Adding to corporate email systems is a different ask all together.

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  4. I think I would need to see the proof in the pudding on this.

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  5. Let robot chat each other 😜

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  6. AI will start composing ig stories for u.....inclusive of your notti pics 😜

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  7. Think what the reply will be when you email your boss for an increase.

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  8. If he can read and answer to them… so we don’t need to 😀

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    1. so why need workers in the office🤷🏼‍♂️

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    2. luckily there are person in office with a work that is much more than answering to idiotic mails

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    3. but a lot of probably unnecessary people in the office and workplaces . Well AI will wipe a large amount of people in next 10 years weather we like it or not . Welcome to the future.

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    4. they said same about computers and industrial machines/robots

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    5. uh alittle different?! Dude expand your mind ! It’s already begun people exploiting and it being used in companies now . Wakey wakey !🙄😂

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    6. we should just have AI do everything and we can finally just go on a life long vacation.

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  9. but can it write elaborate gremlin poems?!

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  10. Why? I want to write my own correspondence. This AI stuff (most of which is hype and propaganda) is too much. Is this the future--where we don't create, don't write, don't communicate? Where we sit back and do nothing? I don't like it.

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    1. Later. 👋

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    2. what you do with your time is up to you. If you want to do nothing then that's your choice. I'm going on vacation though.

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  11. Oh good. I can send emails, I'm not writing, to people who probably aren't reading them!

    Step 3: profit.

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  12. I remember facebook shutting down their AI programs when it started to do encrypted conversations.

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  13. Will hopefully make a lot more sense than a lot of work emails I get 😂😂😂

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  14. Just code as json to get the info expressed in an unambiguous way. No language model needed.

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  15. So don't actually communicate with each other. Gotcha.

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  16. Could be an epic time saver for those who get lots of emails to reply to I guess

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  17. Double edged sword. As it becomes a norm, you'll be expected to use it and perform the work of several more employees.

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  18. Is it easier to prompt and then edit or just write a freaking email?! How many “impersonal” emails are we sending? 98% of my emails are to clients and friends. I wouldn’t insult or waste the time of either by being too lazy to do it myself and say what I want/need to say.

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  19. In future it will respond as well on recipient's behalf...

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  20. "Let me just check my... why do I have 5,468,667 emails of AIs just thanking another AI for thanking them???"

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  21. Are we well on the way to becoming the Eloi?

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  22. in the future, humans will be obsolete and useless because AI does everything...

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  23. Grammarly gave them a run for their money

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  24. It’s doubtful any such email could be accepted as evidence in court or considered an official document.

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  25. Soon it will be bots mailing with bots, wonder what they will come up with with no human involved 🙂

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  26. As if spell check was not bad enough!

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  27. soon AI will be talking to AI via emails and we’ll be sipping coffee and taking naps all day !

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  28. This was how Skynet happenned. She got feed up Will all the emails and notifications she had to respond…

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  29. Gmails predictive text is poor at the best of times, even for short sentences, not sure I believe that it can write a whole email

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    1. predictive text is not AI 🤣

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  30. But do you really want it to?

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  31. Please no. I need less email in my life, not more.

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  32. Please somebody write “Skynet”. Today any little AI thing is called like that by many even if it doesn’t have access to weapons or anything.

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  33. AI taking over the world gradually, next generation will be full of lazy duds

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  34. Good god this will be awesome.. 😆

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  35. Hi al my name's al, um i noticed some spelling mistakes in your email. Mind taking a second look before hitting send?

    🤣🤣🤣🤣

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  36. Sender: "compose a polite lengthy email covering these bullet points"

    Recipient: "boil this lengthy email down to some essential bullet points"

    Progress

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  37. They have good gpt email extensions on chrome already

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  38. I cant wait for mgmt/supervisors to be fired and replaced with ai.

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  39. Google will let AI write emails for you, but don’t your dare use AI to create content.

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  40. Hope AI will reply the email too automatically lol

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  41. Humans, take back your power!

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  42. South Park already nailed this idea to the wall.

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  43. Very soon, their plan will be complete
    https://giphy.com/gifs/wall-e-HSLbIjLk2GsBa

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    1. I have always been terrified of a Wall-e like future!

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  44. Speaking of AI, if GMail AI works like Tesla Full Self-driving, i will lose my friends and my job in few emails...

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  45. I can only imagine how even more lazy the future is about to become.

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  46. https://www.theaiblog.net/artificial-superintelligences-asi/

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  47. https://giphy.com/gifs/ew-best-besties-bestbesties-BGtwpCaSlN1FiIzReQ

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  48. Millions of people are using various ways to make money, and one of the most promising is using Meta for Business! Things changed tremendously when I started believing in the brand of Meta and surrendering to my desire to have my own Meta Quest 2! https://www.meta.com/quest/products/quest-2/

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  49. Wake me up when it tells me this meeting will not be a good use of your time

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  50. Toh main kya Karu. Job chod du

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  51. ... and it will live your life for you? No thanks.

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  52. So bye bye office workers ?!🤷🏼‍♂️

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  53. https://www.facebook.com/Dr-musa-love-spell-119971161087393/

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  54. My lover left me, and I love her so much I have been looking for a way to get her back, until I meet a friend that direct me to Dr Musa who help me bring back my lover between 15 hours contact Dr Musa for any kind of relationship problem.

    https://www.facebook.com/Dr-musa-love-spell-119971161087393/

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  55. Or we just pay Google ample hack load from Uganda and Florida for using thousands and thousands of false aliases as they normally do.

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  56. https://youtu.be/uq-gYOrU8bA

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  57. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10167519835030277&id=664025276

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  58. Darn. Eventually, we're going to actually have to meet in person. The horror! /sarcasm

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  59. making the world more stupid by the day.

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  60. will it live my life for me ?

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  61. Until someone says that is not what I meant

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    1. Hello Elon Musk here ❤️🚀

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    2. Elon Musk sure…

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    3. how are you and the family?

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  62. Naku good bye na Kay Ghostwriter

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  63. It used to be about working smarter, not harder. It now appears we’ve landed in can’t be ‘rsed just get a bot to do it.
    It’s bad enough we don’t actually talk to each other without having our faces on our phones, we’ve got to the stage we don’t even need to speak to each other, we can just pretend

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  64. "Google, write harassing emails to Donald Trump. Don't stop until I say." 😛

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  65. The AI writes a large email, and then on the other end, the AI is going to sum it up. Would not be better to write a short email from the beginning?

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    1. for people to feel comfortable with it it’s prob gonna start out like that so if you wanna read the actual email in detail you can. However as we prioritize faster data processing I’m sure it will just be a summed up key points to make the test more efficient

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  66. Google jumps the gun with auto fill in my searches now. It writes stuff that I absolutely did not intend to.

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  67. "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." I'm not sure I'd trust AI to respond to supervisor emails lol.

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  68. And soon you wont have a job

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  69. And goodbye to literacy, slowly but surely.

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  70. Google AI will soon take over your job?

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  71. Imagining a group email chain consisting entirely of like 5 people letting the AI take over and the whole thread is just nonsense but one guy Greg is reading everything not realizing what's going on and taking all sorts of detrimental actions that will destroy the company

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    1. This sounds plausible!

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    2. lol it's suspiciously specific

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  72. Just combine this function with auto-reply, boss-tone preference learning and neuralink meetings. Companies could run themselves!

    Not sure if promise or threat. 🧐

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  73. While I have my ability to think I do not need A1Thank you, the day that happens I shall exterminate my phone it is bad enough when trying to text it keeps adding words that makes no sense

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    1. Hello Elon Musk here ❤️🚀

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  74. Phishing emails about to get a lot more difficult to spot.

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    1. not true, the text tends to be obvious as well but there are many ways to identify that besides the context of the email

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    2. they’re bound to take advantage of these tools and there will be in increase in their success because of it even though there are other ways to spot them.

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  75. Yet they still can't fix threading.

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  76. hope an AI will also read those mails for me ...

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  77. And then the same AI sends back an email to my AI and so on so forth. Hope they make the right decisions while I am sipping my cappucino 😉

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  78. Can they earn money for me.

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  79. ....and will read them too. And auto-reply too
    Think ....

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  80. Goodbye to all the GPT browser extensions.

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  81. Gmail AI composes an email. Then the recipient has gmail AI reply.

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  82. Please do it. Not only write emails but send it, and do follow ups, and no need to bother me. Let me relax and chill.

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  83. so abnormal. Those that stick with their personal way of conducting business and communication with their clients will continue to thrive. Like anything generic or fake most are not accepting of it and can detect it. IE- the images created using AI. Most are completely pointless and created by people with time on their hands. Definitely not art as well. As humans we have the right to decide if we let AI influence our personal or business lives. Generic is always going to be that....generic!!! Humans want to deal with humans.

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  84. Awesome!
    More time to play harder longer.

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  85. https://giphy.com/gifs/youcom-who-painted-the-famous-work-persistence-of-memory-r7HFZUPLnRbE4bESv9

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  86. https://giphy.com/gifs/future-agi-workless-knmQ16pay6FYkONHcJ

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  87. https://media.tenor.co/images/43c51b2fce9ec716042a3ae1aa46b5ad/tenor.gif?c=VjFfZmFjZWJvb2tfd2ViY29tbWVudHM&itemid=20799830

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  88. Yay an illiterate generation coming! Generation Duh.

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    1. Exactly. Dumbing down of society leads to reliance and control.

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  89. And they accused tik tik of spying. Lol

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  90. I already had to turn of their "smart" replies because they were wildly off target. I can't imagine how wrong a full response will be. Can it take the office politics into account? Change from casual to formal construction depending on who the recipient is?

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  91. This sounds like more work than writing a few sentences on your own

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