Upgrade about Gmail's Gemini button

 Gmail's Gemini button can now summarize your emails, draft emails and more  

The Gemini experience within Gmail app is getting better.  Gmail is getting an AI-powered upgrade. At its Google I/O 2024 conference, Google announced that Gmail users will be able to search, summarize and draft their emails using its Gemini AI technology. It will also be able to take action on emails for more complex tasks, like helping you process an e-commerce return by searching your inbox, finding the receipt and filling out an online form. Following are the some of the important points:-

A new Gemini button in the Gmail for Android app was reported earlier.

Google has added new features to the button, including quick prompts for suggested actions.

The button can also be used for additional capabilities like searching within your mailbox and drafting emails.

Google has been making steady strides in embedding its Gemini AI more deeply into its suite of services and our digital lives. With Gemini already on its way to replace Google Assistant as the default digital assistant, its role within the Gmail app is also expanding significantly. In one demo at I/O, the company showed how a parent who wanted to catch up on what was going on at their child’s school could ask Gemini to summarize all the recent emails from the school, Google says. In addition to the body of the emails themselves, the feature will also be able to analyse attachments, like PDFs. The resulting summary will include key points or action items. In another demo, Google showed off how Gemini in Gmail could help a homeowner doing home renovations compare different quotes from contractors who had sent their bids in via email.

Earlier, we reported about a new Gemini button in the Gmail Android app (version 2024.05.19.635289964). By tweaking some flags, we managed to activate this feature to explore its functions. Now, with the release of Gmail version 2024.05.26.638440827, Google has introduced some noteworthy updates to the button’s functionality. Google has refined the user interface for the Gemini button. It now offers new quick prompts such as “Summarize this email,” “List the next steps,” and “Suggest a reply.” In addition to the suggested actions, we can also use the button for a variety of tasks, such as drafting email replies, altering the tone of drafted responses and even handling some non-email-related queries.

From a sidebar in Gmail, users can ask Gemini to help them organize receipts from their emails and even put them in a Drive folder, or extract the information from the receipts and put them into a spread sheet. If that’s something you do often as a business traveller tracking expenses, Gemini can also offer to automate the workflow for use in the future. Previously, Gmail for Android added a “summarize this email” button below the email’s subject line, which had a limited function. The newly introduced star-shaped Gemini button, located next to the archive button, broadens the scope of tasks you can perform, going beyond just summarizing emails.

Whether Gmail users will want to turn AI tech on in their inboxes remains to be seen. Users in the past were uncomfortable with how Google used to scan emails for ad-targeting purposes, even though the system was automated and no humans were involved. Today, there’s heightened concern about how AI is being trained and how people’s data is being used in that process. Gmail users may be uncomfortable with the idea that an AI is able to “read” their emails for them, despite the advantages and efficiencies such a system brings. In addition to scanning Gmail, Gemini will be able to draft emails for you, Google said. Also at Workspace suite, Gemini will be able to offer highlights from meetings in Google Meet.