The Wall Street Journal is out today with a quick story on the rollout and reception of Gmail’s new Smart Reply feature, and it comes with a few interesting bits of information and anecdotes from random users and Google alike — one of which is particularly humorous…
The piece notes the variety of responses that people have had to the feature. One notes the feeling of dehumanizing the experience, and an actor noted that the replies felt a bit too casual for his liking:
Perhaps one of the funniest anecdotes from the piece is this one, about the infamous “Sent from my iPhone” phrase that appears at the bottom of emails sent on iPhones by default.
Another humorous tidbit: Apparently, Smart Reply was fond of recommending “I love you,” which is obviously not an ideal response for most cases in a business setting.
Obviously, Google is constantly working and tweaking the algorithm to best fit the context of the emails it’s hoping to help you reply to, but it seems as if Google caught the most glaring of issues early.
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