Using AI alongside your email

[Fenman]

Gmail, Outlook and some other providers are pushing the idea of using AI to 'assist' you in using their products.

I'm using AI for some tasks but somehow it gives me the creeps to let it 'assist' me in managing mail. I'd rather keep it as a separate entity.

Is anyone successfully using AI with their email provider? Any thoughts about good practice (if exists)?

[xylon]

That's a good idea!

[Bamb0]

Yes it is..I wouldnt wanna let AI assist me with a thing!!

I dont want my voice stolen!!!!!! (Most cannot tell its not the real voice)

[chrisretusn]

I'm not at all interested in "AI" looking at my email. Creepy it is.

[Fenman]

Originally Posted by chrisretusn

I'm not at all interested in "AI" looking at my email. Creepy it is.

Indeed!

Yet Microsoft, for example, will tell you that "Copilot in Outlook helps you manage and triage your email and time more efficiently. It provides personalized suggestions, summaries, and insights to help you stay on top of things and save time. Whether you need help drafting the appropriate email response, schedule meetings in a few clicks, find key information in an email thread, or make sure your message has the right tone and clarity'

Is that assistance or interference!

[Bamb0]

I wouldnt be surprised if they try to force this on people......

[chrisretusn]

Originally Posted by Fenman

Indeed!

Yet Microsoft, for example, will tell you that "Copilot in Outlook helps you manage and triage your email and time more efficiently. It provides personalized suggestions, summaries, and insights to help you stay on top of things and save time. Whether you need help drafting the appropriate email response, schedule meetings in a few clicks, find key information in an email thread, or make sure your message has the right tone and clarity'

Is that assistance or interference!

I access my two Outlook accounts via my email client. I do not want or need what this Copilot offers. I'm going with interference.

[TenFour]

So far I have not found any use for AI in my own life, and in many cases when I allow software to do things automatically for me it creates more work and provides a worse experience. For example, "typing suggestions" or autocorrect are almost always wrong. I turn them off. Automatic filtering of my emails into various tabs just doesn't work, because inevitably at least every day something ends up in the wrong location meaning I have to now review three or four different tabs instead of just one. I even find conversation view just confusing. The "conversation" always gets jumbled up. I completely gave up on voice assistants, because inevitably they take longer to do something than if I just do it myself. I prefer my own intelligence to an artificial one. What's the point of having a brain if you don't use it?

[chrisretusn]

The more I encounter this supposed artificial intelligence I have come to the conclusion that it not artificial nor is it intelligence. It programed to give you what the programmer wants to give you.

[jeffpan]

Originally Posted by chrisretusn

The more I encounter this supposed artificial intelligence I have come to the conclusion that it not artificial nor is it intelligence. It programed to give you what the programmer wants to give you.

You are right. Just a kind of statistics.