Gmail AI tool 'Help me write' announced: Write emails in a jiffy-Sundar Pichai shows how to use

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Google I/O 2023 event held on Wednesday May 10 brought a lot of new and exciting hardware and software news. Some of them were related to bringing Artificial Intelligence in most of its products including Google Workspace. In fact, even the newly launched Pixel 7a smartphone got an AI link. But for those who find writing emails a pain, here is some great news.

Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google says the company has now made writing mails so much easier. During the event he announced the launch of "Help me write," which is an AI-powered feature part of Gmail that can generate instant responses to emails-virtually in seconds.

"Seven years into our journey as an AI-first company, we're at an exciting inflection point. We have an opportunity to make AI even more helpful for people, for businesses, for communities, for everyone. We've been applying AI to make our products radically more helpful for a while. With generative AI, we're taking the next step. With a bold and responsible approach, we're reimagining all our core products, including Search," Pichai stated.

Gmail has been evolving to make the users work a lot easier. "There are some great examples of how generative AI is helping to evolve our products, starting with Gmail. In 2017, we launched Smart Reply, short responses you could select with just one click. Next came Smart Compose, which offered writing suggestions as you type. Smart Compose led to more advanced writing features powered by AI. They've been used in Workspace over 180 billion times in the past year alone. And now, with a much more powerful generative model, we're taking the next step in Gmail with “Help me write,” Pichai stated.

Explaining how it works, in a demonstration of the tool, Pichai used "Help me