Is Google Gemini’s Email Summarizing Feature for Gmail the Right Fit for You? Let’s Find Out!

“Google Gemini Can Summarize Your Emails in Gmail. Should You Use It?”

“Google wants to make reading email on your phone less of a slog, and it’s betting on AI to help you with that.” And boy, don’t we all just love it when technology decides to make our lives simpler with lesser tasks to handle? Hold on folks because Google is yet again on a mission to revolutionize our tech lives, this time revamping emailing with a sprinkle of Artificial Intelligence.

The tech giant is out with Project Gemini, Google’s attempts at training AI to summarize our lengthy emails. Because evidently, reading emails is such a taxing chore in our already overly digital lives. The digital gods at Google reckon human functionaries are better off elsewhere than wading through the morass of interminable email threads. Well, a round of applause for Google’s act of benevolence—sparing us from the email drudgery in their quest to streamline our lives.

Project Gemini, or “email understanding”, as Google likes to call it, will apparently use AI and Machine Learning to read and summarize your emails in Gmail. No surprise there. It appears Google still believes that AI is the magic wand that will automate every sphere of our lives, whether it’s useful or not.

But with every new tech offering comes the quintessential question—privacy. Would the company that organizes the world’s information be peeking into our emails? It remains a pertinent question, especially in this day and era where personal data is more precious than gold. Google, without a miss, assures us that they have robust methods to strip personal data from its systems. Well, that certainly makes us feel better, given the illustrious history of tech giants and their trysts with data breaches.

Nevertheless, moving past our skepticism hats, the potential upside is that Gmail could, in theory, help to save time. The more machine learning models understand language, perhaps the better they will get at alleviating our email woes.

Just remember though, Google is not the first tech behemoth to walk down the AI email assistant lane. Just years ago, a certain blue birdie (Twitter) released a similar feature, albeit to a mixed response. Only time will tell if our dear Google is able to recreate the ‘magic of AI’ or will it be just another tech venture struggling to find its feet in the user-relevance market.

In conclusion, it is worth waiting for Project Gemini to see if it can truly provide a leap towards productivity and efficiency, or will it simply add another layer of complexity to our already tech-heavy notifications? But till then, rest assured, the overlords at Google will continue to exercise their AI-magic wand in an attempt to streamline our mundane digital chores (insert eye roll).

Read the original article here: https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-summarize-emails-in-gmail/