Angry Nerd: Google's Smart Reply Makes Us All Dumber

And it's no Lee Israel--she'd balk at all the fast- flying verbal inanities. I speak of Smart Reply, Google's answer, in the form of a triad of autogenerated responses, to the problem of email. Just the other day, it saw fit to butt-reply to a frenemy of mine, "I'll be there!" This in response to an invitation I had planned to ignore. Not only do I now have to attend; I must be excited!