The artificial intelligence of Google continues to expand its daily services, and this time it is email's turn. The company has begun deploying a massive update for “Help me write” (Help me write), the tool integrated into Gmail that promises to compose messages for us. Although the idea of a machine answering our emails is not new, the real change is that it now pretends to sound exactly like us.
To achieve this, the function debuts two important improvements: the contextualization of topics and the tone customization. The first allows AI to extract information directly from your documents in Google Drive to put together a response; for example: ask you to include the data from the last budget. The second, much more curious, analyzes your history of sent emails to copy your writing style. If you are one of those who respond with short sentences or prefer a very formal tone, the tool will try to replicate it to leave the typical mechanized text behind.
An attractive feature behind a paywall
As convenient as it is to delegate that tedious day-to-day writing, there's one crucial detail: it's not a free upgrade for everyone. Only users who have enterprise Workspace subscriptions or pay for the plan Google One AI Premium They will have access to these news. Handing over our old conversations to the AI so that it learns to imitate us still gives a little respect in terms of privacy, although the company ensures that data security is fully guaranteed.
The initial deployment began recently and, according to Google's statementit could take up to fifteen days to be fully enabled on supported accounts. It is an undoubted advance that will prevent us from wasting time searching for data between different tabs, but it also demonstrates a reality: the most powerful innovations today are reserved for those who check out.
Would you be willing to have a machine analyze your past emails to save you a few minutes writing messages?
