Cutting angles. Google provides countless resources to analyze and refine how we communicate via email. The evolution of artificial intelligence fueled these efforts, helping it introduce solutions like Smart Reply in 2017 and Smart Compose in 2018. At this year’s developer conference, Google introduced its newest AI-powered feature that enables the ability to create. complete email responses at the click of a button.
Google earlier held its annual developer conference, Google I/O, at its Mountain View campus. Google CEO Sundar Pichai presented several topics and announcements during the event’s keynote, ranging from updates to Google Maps to its 3D telecommunications solution, Project Starline. The announcement of a special new feature called “Help Me Write” caught the attention of Gmail’s nearly 2 billion users.
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Since their release, Google’s previous Smart Reply and Smart Compose features have helped users create basic replies and offer predictive text suggestions. Help Me Write extends these capabilities by allowing users to create and edit entire messages with a single click.
Google developers designed the technology to help minimize the time spent on simple, repetitive messages and answering common questions and needs. Pichai’s demo shows a user replying to an email, clicking the new feature icon, and entering a prompt describing the desired purpose of the reply. The result was a clear and precise letter that included elements that directly related to the original message. Once created, Help Me Write users can manually edit, ask AI to elaborate or shorten the message.
A recent blog post referenced this new email feature and several other AI-assisted authoring tools that are part of Google’s new Duet AI for Google Workspace. Similar to Help Me Write’s email authoring capabilities, the new Workspace toolset allows users to create AI-assisted text and visual content with descriptive prompts. For example, Duet AI will help Google Slides users create new, original cue-based visuals for their presentations.
Sheets users can also use Google’s AI to streamline their data-driven tasks. Duet AI’s new Help Me Organize feature can support users by automatically creating personalized plans to track tasks and projects using the same speed-based description feature.
Users interested in previewing these new technologies can register to access them through Google’s Workspace Labs registration page. Select users will gain access to Google’s latest generative AI features in Workspace and provide feedback on usage, issues, and potential improvements before the public release.