Google AI Creeps Into Gmail Accounts to ‘Find Exactly What You’re Looking For’

Google AI Creeps Into Gmail Accounts to ‘Find Exactly What You’re Looking For’
The Google logo is pictured atop an office building in Irvine, Calif., on Aug. 7, 2017. Mike Blake/Reuters
Naveen Athrappully
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Google is introducing a “highly requested” AI search feature in its Gmail service amid concerns that artificial intelligence could pose a threat to privacy.

The new Gmail AI search feature is intended to “improve the search experience” of Gmail mobile users and will help people find “exactly what you’re looking for,” Google said in a June 2 blog post. “When searching in Gmail, machine learning models will use the search term, most recent emails, and other relevant factors to show you the results that best match your search query. These results will now appear at the top of the list in a dedicated section, followed by all results sorted by recency.”
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