[chrischen]

It would be great if someone could implement this as a free public service, using neural algorithms to generate responses.

[ikeboy]

http://www.419eater.com has many organic neural nets doing just that. (Sorry, I've always wanted to make that joke.)

[Waterluvian]

I agree. But I have to say I had a chuckle that the second half of your sentence looks like hipster mode to me.

[chrischen]

There are services for this already, actually, such as wit.ai and api.ai. Wit.ai is free.

[ttul]

You could train an LSTM network to generate responses in the same way that google's inbox response suggestions work. Requires a mountain of source data, but hey, you probably have 30GB of email sitting in your Gmail, right?

[nkozyra]

Actually I think a NN might require way too much supervision. You could feed exits (emails that got no response) into a decision tree to know what to send at any point in the chain to maximize response.