Gmail for iOS will now use AI to filter push notifications

Google wants to use AI to help determine which emails you receive as notifications.

The Gmail app on iOS (it's not yet available on the Android version) now offers users an option to only get notifications for "high priority emails." The feature uses artificial intelligence to determine which messages recipients would deem important and lets them turn off notifications for all the others.

"Notifications are only useful if you have time to read them — and if you’re being notified hundreds of times a day, chances are, you don’t," read the update announcement. "That’s why we’re introducing a feature that alerts you only when important emails land in your Gmail inbox, so you know when your attention is really required." Read more...