{"id":15987,"date":"2017-05-18T00:06:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T00:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=301088"},"modified":"2017-05-24T22:38:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T22:38:37","slug":"google-rolls-out-new-smart-reply-machine-learning-email-software-to-more-than-1-billion-gmail-mobile-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2017\/05\/18\/google-rolls-out-new-smart-reply-machine-learning-email-software-to-more-than-1-billion-gmail-mobile-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Google rolls out new &lsquo;smart reply&rsquo; machine-learning email software to more than 1 billion Gmail mobile users"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_301121\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 545px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><img class=\" wp-image-301121\" title=\"side-by-side-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/side-by-side-31.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"501\" \/><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">A smarter version of Smart Reply (credit: Google Research)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Google is rolling out an enhanced version of its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/gmail\/save-time-with-smart-reply-in-gmail\/\">smart reply<\/a>\u201d machine-learning email software to \u201cover 1 billion Android and iOS users of Gmail,\u201d Google CEO Sundar Pichai said today (May 17, 2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y2VF8tmLFHw&amp;feature=youtu.be\" >in a keynote at the annual Google I\/O conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smart Reply suggests up to three replies to an email message &#8212; saving you typing time, or giving you time to think through a better reply. Smart Reply was previously only available to users of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/inbox\/\" >Google Inbox<\/a> (an app that helps Gmail users organize their email messages and reply efficiently).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hierarchical model<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Developed by a team headed by Ray Kurzweil, a Google director of engineering, \u201cthe new version of Smart Reply increases the percentage of usable suggestions and is much more algorithmically efficient than the original system,\u201d said Kurzweil in a <a href=\"https:\/\/research.googleblog.com\/2017\/05\/efficient-smart-reply-now-for-gmail.html\">Google Research blog post<\/a> with research colleague Brian Strope today. \u201cAnd that efficiency now makes it feasible for us to provide Smart Reply for Gmail.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_301126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 545px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><img class=\" wp-image-301126\" title=\"hierarchy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/hierarchy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"470\" \/><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hierarchy of modules (credit: Google Research)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The team was inspired by how humans understand languages and concepts, based on hierarchical models of language, Kurzweil and Strope explained. The new approach uses \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/How_to_Create_a_Mind\">hierarchies of modules, each of which can learn, remember, and recognize a sequential pattern<\/a>,\u201d as described in Kurzweil\u2019s 2012 book, <em>How to Create a Mind. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>For example, a sentence like \u201cThat interesting person at the cafe we like gave me a glance\u201d is difficult to interpret. Was it a positive or negative gesture? But \u201cgiven enough examples of language, a machine learning approach can discover many of these subtle distinctions,\u201d they write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is rolling out an enhanced version of its &ldquo;smart reply&rdquo; machine-learning email software to &ldquo;over 1 billion Android and iOS users of Gmail,&rdquo; Google CEO Sundar Pichai said today (May 17, 2017) in a keynote at the annual Google I\/O conference. Smart Reply suggests up to three replies to an email message &mdash; saving [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,53,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airobotics","category-internetcloudtelecom","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15987"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16152,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987\/revisions\/16152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}