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Write Emails Faster with Smart Compose in Gmail

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Post by CamelCaseName »

scrollaway wrote: post #79
peatmoss wrote: post #75

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I think if you are a (paid?) enterprise user, they do not do this. On the other hand, sussing out what is and is not fair game is quite a lot easier with a service such as Fastmail.

Doesn't have to be "enterprise". Anyone can pay $5/mo for GSuite ( https://gsuite.google.com ), which includes gmail and a ton of other tools. Furthermore, it's on your own domain rather than @gmail.com, which is not only better (you truly own the email address), it's also a hell of a lot more professional and makes it easier to migrate to other services if you wish to. To put it bluntly, if anyone here is complainin…

I've been meaning to do this for ages. Thanks to you, I just did.

https://i.imgur.com/wXkPYXs.png

Let me know if you have any tips for getting the most out of my new subscription!

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Post by pvdebbe »

The title reminds me how Google effectively crippled fast writing of emails a couple of years back, when they fouled up the Compose textbox with fancy JS/HTML hackery. Can't write & paste an email to the Compose box, can't invoke an "edit-text-in-external-editor" browser function on it. There's smart in simplicity.

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Post by wahern »

mike_ivanov wrote: post #145
wahern wrote: post #134

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

No, it's on a different scale. I'm talking about things like an anthill or a tuna shoal kind of emergence -- a collective animal.

An ant is a phenomenon that emerges from the interaction of genes as they react to the environment in the same way that an anthill is emergent from the collective behavior of the individual ants as they react to the environment.

Memes would be the basic building blocks of any organism that emerged from the manner in which replicated ideas collectively reacted to the environment. Arguably this describes human culture, though I think that's a long way from exhibiting independent intelligence (but maybe we'd be incapable of recognizing it).

Presumably something could emerge from the collective interaction of such meme-based organisms. Though like with ants, where the phenomena of an anthill can also be understood directly in terms of genes (all the ants are siblings), I suspect it could really just be reduced to the interplay of mutually reinforcing memes.

I wonder what the analog to delineating the internal and external environment is in the meme-based universe....

Re: Write Emails Faster with Smart Compose in Gmail

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Post by antonkm »

dragonwriter wrote: post #99
antonkm wrote: post #96

> Over the next few weeks, Smart Compose will appear in the new Gmail for consumers, and will be made available for G Suite customers in the workplace in the coming months. Weird to roll out to free consumers first. What's the reasoning behind this?

Almost everything rolls out to free consumers first. The consumer version is like a regular stable release channel, G Suite is like an enhanced product built on top of the latest LTS.

Thanks for the clarification!

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Post by euyyn »

meeton wrote: post #10

This is awful. We need _less_ mediation and commodification of our personal interactions, not more. What is the use of this? At best this is a solution searching for a problem, at worst it's an attempt to standardize our communication in a way which makes semantic meaning easier to analyse.

You should receive the amount of corporate email I do. I don't want my email responses at work to be rich personal interactions. I want them to take me the least amount of time while still being useful.

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Post by euyyn »

dmazin wrote: post #36
baxtr wrote: post #23

I don’t understand the sentiment of the comments here (I’m no google fan!). Isn’t that just the natural evolution of word prediction like on a smartphone?

Yes. But let's extend that evolution -- if an AI can pretty much write a solid email, don't we basically become like a safety driver in a self-driving car? Not alluring.

A Natural Intelligence in the form of a human assistant can write a solid email for an executive that doesn't have time, based on what the executive tells them to write. This is an assistant for everyone, not just the super rich.

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

givinguflac wrote: post #166
city41 wrote: post #165

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I feel like we are becoming less homogeneous. When I was a kid everyone watched cable television after dinner and everyone watched all of the same shows. Thursday night was Friends. Friday night was Full House and Family Matters, etc. Now I find everyone I know watches all kinds of shows, many of which I've never even heard of. Not to mention YouTube which is whole new layers upon layers of content. In an odd way, I…

Personally I think you’re both right. We are becoming less homogeneous as a society, but the people within those subgroups interact much less than they used to, at least in person.

Yes, I think this is an accurate observation. There seems to be more variation on the fringe and more homogeneity closer to the center (or over large areas).

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

mike_ivanov wrote: post #145
wahern wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

No, it's on a different scale. I'm talking about things like an anthill or a tuna shoal kind of emergence -- a collective animal.

I feel these constructs were always present (compare the behavior of a pack of wolves vs a lone wolf) but in our age they're large reinforced by the "pack" being orders of magnitude larger. See how lynch works in social media: someone gets accused of something, then an army of disgusted users carries on the attack, which is not only virtual today. Individual conversation in these circumstances is not possible: you're not talking to individuals, but to a Mob, an animal with it's own behavior and very limited reasoning abilities.

The communication with bots and computer systems that are designed to interact with humans and equipped with the so-called "AI" is of similar nature: it seems there is some exchange, but it's very shallow and limited by the abilities of the receiving end - you can never transmit anything new, anything that the system is unable to understand. Continued use of such systems might have hard to predict consequences.

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Post by mercer »

zwaps wrote: post #139
mercer wrote: post #129

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Why sad? Would you prefer we all learn how to use a feather and ink? or perhaps chiseling stuff into rocks?

I only write my bespoke contributions with my gold-plated Lamy chisel on Italian white granite. I think children these days do not appreciate the art of text.

What's wrong with carving symbols into bamboo? Kids these days.
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