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Given how bad the spam filtering has gotten, the way they give spam notifications from Google Calendar a free pass, the current mess that is "Priority Inbox", I
by cube00 10mo ago
Given how bad the spam filtering has gotten, the way they give spam notifications from Google Calendar a free pass, the current mess that is "Priority Inbox", I have my doubts they can be trusted to correctly filter my new "AI Inbox" to catch what really matters.
This lets high-stakes items — like a bill due tomorrow or a dentist reminder — rise to the top.
I really hope it hadn't just been trained on US content because their so called decades old capability to have flight reservations appear in Google Calendar and Wallet sourced from GMail has never worked for me.
- rvnx 10mo agoSeems like Gemini Flash with a prompt: "Is this email spam or not spam ? Answer with true/false in json"
- dijit 10mo agoprobably not far off it, and to be honest, that's actually better than 99% of spam filtering that exists. I think it's more likely a "confidence" between 0-1, and then you can customise what is an acceptable threshold per account. Business accounts needing confidence 0.7 and free accounts needing confidence 0.6. That's how I'd think about it at least. Boolean is slightly too lossy.
- rvnx 10mo agoSeems more like a money problem, than a tech problem at this stage.
- pants2 10mo agoIt's a surprisingly hard problem. I filter / rank my own emails this way and the prompt has grown to like 2,000 words and it's all very specific to exactly what's important to me. The latest Gemini Flash works well but older mini models struggle.
- rvz 10mo agoThe warnings were right there, and it is really unsurprising. [0] AI can never work without a dataset to train on and it will always need to read your email to make a decision. This is why Google products have a massive privacy prompt before you start using Gemini. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968411 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968411