INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
At its Cloud Next event in London, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian today announced that Smart Compose, the AI-powered feature that
currently tries to complete phrases and sentences for you in Gmail, is also coming to G Suite Google Docs soon
For now, though, your G Suite admin has to sign up for the beta to try it and it only available in English.
Google says in total, Smart
Compose in Gmail already saves people from typing about 2 billion characters per week
At least in my own experience, it also works surprisingly well and has only gotten better since launch (as one would expect from a product
that learns from the individual and collective behavior of its users)
It remains to be seen how well this same technique works for longer texts, but even longer documents are often quite formulaic, so the
algorithm should still work quite well there, too.
Google first announced Smart Compose in May 2018, as part of its I/O developer conference
It builds upon the same machine learning technology Google developed for its Smart Reply feature
The company then rolled out Smart Compose to all G Suite and private Gmail users, starting in July 2018, and later added support for mobile,
too.
Google Smart Compose is now ready to write emails for G Suite users
