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Knowmail – AI for email
- gravypod 11y agoI wish someone would clone a service like this and make if self hosted. I am completely uncomfortable with sharing my email data with a third party company.
- niix 11y agoAgreed, or they should at least offer a self hosted option similar to the Ghost blogging platform.
- eranknow 11y agoEmail data is not shared, as it remains client side, where recommendations are given per user. No identifiable data leaves your device, and only anonymized info is utilized to build a "personal model" for a user.
- bonoboTP 11y agoNo way to know, since it isn't free software.
- gravypod 11y agoIt's good to see that someone remembers why libre software IS important. Because you know what you are running on your machine.
- domas 11y agoI would have issue with "anonymized info" as this is difficult to achieve as shown from other anonymous data releases [0]. [0] http://yro.slashdot.org/story/06/09/25/2150209/AOL-Subscribers-Sue-Over-Release-Of-Search-Data http://yro.slashdot.org/story/06/09/25/2150209/AOL-Subscribe...
- mcintyre1994 11y ago> No identifiable data leaves your device This sounds incredibly hard to achieve with email contents - nothing identifiable at all? Does it do things like strip names out of email bodies? It says they learn contacts under priority stuff (which seems sensible) - so they do that locally? Looking at their other features - what are they sending messages to the cloud for?
- jamespo 11y agothe site provides so little details on the implementation, is it cloud hosted, exchange plugin, ?
- pentium10 11y agoit's cloud based as they note SaaS: Conducts the “heavy lifting” algorithmic analysis of the anonymized information and generates an updated mathematical model for the client.
- patates 11y ago...and there goes the whole German market out of the window.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoSomebody please explain to me what could possibly be there that would require actual "heavy lifting"? From skimming the features, nothing there seems to require much in terms of computation and data. It's also a general question - a lot of the new ML-ish startups seem to do trivial calculations that should be totally doable locally, but for some reason they do them on my butt. Is it because (cynical view) butt-first is the easiest way to monetize users further (e.g. through data) and lock them in, or (less cynical view) it's just like with the big data - people drink the Kool-Aid and think they need a Hadoop cluster to do what could be done equally fast with a shell script?
- eranknow 11y agoClient based plugin connected to Knowmail's SaaS in order to generating the heavy modeling for each user
- 6d6b73 11y agoThis has nothing to do with AI... Not long ago everything needed to have "built with JavaScript" stamp, now it must have AI to sell, but ...does it have electrolytes?
- eranknow 11y agoIt uses machine learning in order to build a personalized model for each user, based on their personal habits and email communication behaviors
- 6d6b73 11y agoMachine learning is not AI
- eranknow 11y agoMachine learning is a type of artificial intelligence providing computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.
- ekianjo 11y agoI guess the original point was that machine learning is nothing like actual intelligence, it is closer to a process of artificial model creation than anything else. "Artificial intelligence" is a term that's completely abused these days.
- Eyas 11y agoWell, machine learning might not enlighten us to understand actual intelligence. There is no reason why actual intelligence can't simply be modeled by (and function like) a giant neural network. Many of us hope there is some form of symbolic intelligence deeper than just stochastic models or neural nets, but we really don't know.
- SamBam 11y agoDepends on what you mean by "these days." I did an AI degree over ten years ago, and Machine Learning was certainly considered a part of AI then.
- SlyShy 11y agoWow does that UI ever look cluttered and claustrophobic. Doesn't seem like they want anyone to actually read their email.
- wodenokoto 11y agoLooks like outlook (which it is) with a small window size. http://i.nextmedia.com.au/Features/Outlook-2013-Mail-.jpg http://i.nextmedia.com.au/Features/Outlook-2013-Mail-.jpg
- eranknow 11y agoIts UI is like Outlook as it works on top of Outlook, keeping employees communicating by email same as they regularly are.
- geromek 11y agoHow is this different from SaneBox.com ?
- wodenokoto 11y agoDifferent branding, different algorithm, has an outlook plugin, has a summary function and different filters.
- eranknow 11y agoIt is also automated filtering and prioritization, as well as its aimed for corporate with individuals receiving hundreds of daily emails, thus cannot filter them semi-manually. Furthermore, there are next-best-action features, as to save time, keep organized and reduce noise...to move to appropriate folder automatically, clean an email until a later (more appropriate time), mute yourself from a conversation until named, etc.
- bushido 11y agoBeen seeing a growing number of AI/Machine Learning for email entrants. The outlook plugin looks like a feature that I've not seen with similar apps. Another app that I've played around with recently is BrainBlox[0]. [0] http://www.brainbloxapp.com/ http://www.brainbloxapp.com/
- eranation 11y agoThis is a much needed and welcome addition to enterprise / corporate users who must use Outlook (I assume this is an outlook extension, right?) Seeing so many Microsoft people on the board is encouraging as well. I wish there were more startups focusing on enterprise users. How are you planning to survive the long and costly sale cycles to enterprises? Are you planning also to have a gmail / other clients included?
- avner 11y agoWhy post this when you can't even try it. What is the point?