Those using Google’s Inbox e-mail client will soon have access to a handy new feature: automatic replies. The feature, known as Smart Reply, is designed to make replying to messages on a mobile device less cumbersome and time-consuming.
Introduced earlier today in a blog post by software engineer Bálint Miklós, Smart Reply uses machine learning to recognize e-mails that require a response. Google’s AI skims messages and offers up three natural language responses that fit the context of the message – all you need to do is select which reply you want and fire it off.
