Gmail Understood My Breakup Better Than I Did

Two months after Google introduced Smart Reply, the company said it was already being used in 10 percent of all responses in the mobile Inbox app. Facebook, meanwhile, unveiled this month a neural network called DeepText, which it said "can understand with near-human accuracy the textual content of several thousands posts per second." Corrado urged me not to fear Smart Reply technology, however. In my sadness, I was willing to accept Smart Reply as an ally, not an enemy -- but not because it saved me from writing quick niceties.