With the introduction of email summary cards, which will show up at the top of your emails, Google’s AI assistant, Gemini, is taking up more space in your inbox. The business declared on Thursday that customers can now use AI to summarize emails without tapping an option. Rather of requiring human participation, the AI will now automatically summarize the content as needed.
In addition to other tools like those to draft emails or view suggested responses, one of the features that Gemini offered when it debuted on the Gmail side panel last year was the ability for users to condense lengthy email threads.
Whether you want to use it or not, Google is now using AI to analyze your inbox.
Even though AI summaries aren’t always accurate, the update is just one more illustration of how AI is swiftly encroaching on the programs and services that people depend on the most. For instance, the BBC discovered that when Apple introduced AI summaries for app push notifications, the feature frequently missummed news headlines. In the end, Apple decided to halt the AI summaries for news apps.
Additionally, Google’s AI Overviews function for Search has made numerous errors, occasionally providing erroneous and subpar information.
Gemini will summarize the main points of a lengthy email using the new email summary cards, and it will keep updating the summary as responses come in.
The ability to manually click a button to summarize an email or Google Notes will not be replaced by this functionality. That will continue to show up as a chip in the Gemini side panel of Gmail and at the top of the email.
The summary cards might be turned on or off by default, depending on where you live. (Google’s help page indicates, for example, that smart features are disabled in the EU, the UK, Switzerland, and Japan.) Others have the option to enable or disable the feature by going to “Smart features” in Gmail’s Settings. Using the Admin dashboard, workplace administrators can also choose to turn off user personalization options.