Over the last couple of decades, our email experience has remained basically the same. Sure, we now have prettier email contents and stuff like that, but there hasn’t been anything that has actually radically changed the way we use our email. That is, at least, until AI came into play. Shortwave, which recently added an Android app, is now getting into the AI game with a new, conversational generative AI assistant.
Shortwave is introducing an AI assistant for your email experience. This AI-powered virtual assistant will reside within your email inbox and leverages GPT-4, complete with AI search capabilities, to provide users with an assistant that can do basically anything you want within your email. It’s like building ChatGPT into your inbox, except that it has full access to your emails and is capable of reading through them. Like ChatGPT and other generative AI chatbots, it’s fully conversational, allowing users to seamlessly combine multiple features simply by asking follow-up questions. It’s a lot like the AI-powered demos Microsoft showed off for Outlook earlier this year, except you can actually use it today.
The AI Assistant unlocks the vast knowledge stored within your email history, making it easily accessible. Through advanced AI-enhanced search, it transforms your email data into a valuable knowledge base. Users can retrieve answers and insights from their emails rapidly, saving them hours of searching and sifting through messages.
Among other things, it’s able to analyze and summarize email threads quickly. It also excels in finding information that may not be easily discoverable through traditional keyword searches, helping users locate specific content within seconds. It also assists in composing emails, offering suggestions for replies, improving grammar and tone, and even emulating your writing style based on past emails. It can help schedule meetings by checking your availability, reading email threads, and proposing suitable meeting times. It can even translate emails in foreign languages if you ever find yourself in a need to do so.
The Shortwave AI Assistant is available to everyone, including free users, with some more advanced features, like search, requiring an upgrade to the Standard plan. The company promises rapid updates to enhance its capabilities and intelligence in the future, actively seeking user feedback to shape its development. So if you want to try it out, make sure to give it a spin in the app.
Source: Shortwave