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Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

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Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

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Post by smusamashah »

I dont know why Shortwave is pivoting to current AI craze. I have been using it for a while and it's amazing. Only qualm I have with it, and it's the reason I stopped using it for sometime, that when you mark an email 'done' it does not translate to that email marked as 'read' in Gmail.

Before I realized this I was under the impression that my emails are being marked as read too.

Otherwise, shortwave strength is that it's keyboard driven. You can read, delete, label emails all via keyboard.

Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

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Post by jwngr »

fatfox wrote: post #8

Any potential security issues with giving GPT-3 access to all your emails?

We use OpenAI's GPT-3 API to generate summaries. We have explicitly opted out of OpenAI's default behavior of using their APIs to train their models [1].

Our summarization feature is entirely opt-in. So if you're concerned about sharing your emails with OpenAI, you can choose not to use the feature. You can also read our Privacy Policy [2] and Terms of Service [3] to see how your data is used.

[1] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is... [2] https://www.shortwave.com/policies/privacy-policy/ [3] https://www.shortwave.com/policies/terms-of-service/

Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

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Post by jwngr »

steponlego wrote: post #7

Doesn't this just feed your info straight into some company's database?

We use OpenAI's GPT-3 API to generate summaries. We have explicitly opted out of OpenAI's default behavior of using their APIs to train their models: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is...

Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

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Post by steponlego »

jwngr wrote: post #14
steponlego wrote: post #7

Doesn't this just feed your info straight into some company's database?

We use OpenAI's GPT-3 API to generate summaries. We have explicitly opted out of OpenAI's default behavior of using their APIs to train their models: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is...

So, yes?

Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

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Post by smusamashah »

jwngr wrote: post #2

Hi HN - Shortwave co-founder here. We’ve built a full-featured email client over the last couple of years, just in time for the rise of LLMs. We’ve added quite a few features (and are working on many more) that use LLMs to save you time. I’m most excited about Smart Summaries — they’ll read and then summarize (even from a different language) long newsletters & those huge threads you just don’t want to wade through. W…

Why are you focusing on being AI driven now? Shortwave has been great already. This seems more like an attempt to capture some crowd via current AI hype. I don't know but it may also work in reverse giving a sense of less privacy or something.

Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

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Post by precompute »

libraryatnight wrote: post #13

Summarizing must be the low hanging fruit on the GPT-3 api because everybody and their mother wants to summarize everything for me now. Who's going to write me an extension to aggregate and summarize all my summaries?

I'll do it for 100k and the title "prompt artisan"

Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

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Post by canadianfella »

steponlego wrote: post #15
jwngr wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We use OpenAI's GPT-3 API to generate summaries. We have explicitly opted out of OpenAI's default behavior of using their APIs to train their models: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is...

So, yes?

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Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

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Post by canadianfella »

skilled wrote: post #9
jwngr wrote: post #2

Hi HN - Shortwave co-founder here. We’ve built a full-featured email client over the last couple of years, just in time for the rise of LLMs. We’ve added quite a few features (and are working on many more) that use LLMs to save you time. I’m most excited about Smart Summaries — they’ll read and then summarize (even from a different language) long newsletters & those huge threads you just don’t want to wade through. W…

So the best you could do in a few years is implement the OpenAI API to summarise a bunch of text or did I read that wrong?

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Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

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Post by jwngr »

smusamashah wrote: post #11

I dont know why Shortwave is pivoting to current AI craze. I have been using it for a while and it's amazing. Only qualm I have with it, and it's the reason I stopped using it for sometime, that when you mark an email 'done' it does not translate to that email marked as 'read' in Gmail. Before I realized this I was under the impression that my emails are being marked as read too. Otherwise, shortwave strength is that…

Despite adding some AI features, we are definitely still focused on the core triage and workflow of getting through your inbox. We've launched a bunch of other stuff already this year (https://www.shortwave.com/changelog/) and have more non-AI features coming.

As for marking stuff as read: this is a known issue that we are planning to address. For now, it behaves like archive in Gmail, which does not mark as read. How would you like it to work?

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