What Happens When AI Obliterates Your Business Model?
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What happens when AI undercuts your business model?
Today on the AI Daily Brief, what happens when AI undercuts your business model even when your product is doing great? Before that in the headlines, is our AI personal assistant going to live in our email inbox? The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI.
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Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief Headlines Edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. One of the great white whales of the AI space is the quest to build the AI personal assistant.
So many people are thinking about how they become the default personal assistant and what that means in terms of their ability to retain users. And with its latest move, Google is pointing out that maybe the place for that to live is just about the most obvious place you can imagine. This week, Google announced a big AI overhaul for, you guessed it, Gmail. First up, Google is bringing AI search to the inbox. Users can now search using natural language rather than keywords. Google gave the example of being able to ask, who was the plumber that quoted for the bathroom renovation last year? The response will then be an AI overview style summary with links to relevant information, saving users from hunting around for key pieces of information.
There's also two new tabs labeled suggested to-dos and topics to catch up on. These features both scour your emails to populate useful lists. Suggested to-dos will detect things you might need to take action on, like a bill coming due or an appointment to confirm, while topics to catch up on will give you a passive list to keep you up to date on things like e-commerce order tracking or financial statements. In addition, Google is moving more Gemini features from the paid tier to their free product. All users can now use the Help Me Write feature to polish emails or generate first drafts. There's also an AI-generated Suggested Replies feature that can offer up one-click responses based on your writing style.
I've also noticed that outside of just trying to imitate your style, it can get the context of emails where you repeat yourself a lot and simply suggest them up front. I have a very standard response I send back, for example, to sponsorship inquiries, and at this point, Gmail knows to just suggest that whenever there's a sponsorship inquiry. Speaking to the AI-generated lists, Blake Barnes, the VP of product for Gmail said, This is us delivering on Gmail proactively having your back, showing you what you need to do and when you need to do it. Don't worry, the traditional inbox will remain available. This is simply a new view you can toggle in and out of as you please to cut through the noise of your incoming mail.
Now, honestly, I've been a little bit surprised by the response, which has been kind of positive. Maybe I'm just jaded and expect everyone to hate everything instantly. But what you're seeing is responses like this one from Koho Akata, who writes, If this helps me stop missing bills and important emails, I'm all in.
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