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by snackai 3333 days ago
How is this AI? Snooze, Reply-to and mute emails? Wow, needs hella brain for that. If-Statements are not AI.

The title is misleading.

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These days I cringe when I see 'AI powered' and am wary of products that have it in their marketing lib. Feels like a gimmick due to the hype around AI.
Snoozing and muting emails are added functionalities. The AI makes the following desicions: 1. Which Emails are important and need a reply. 2. Which sent Emails require follow ups and what is the best time for a follow up. 3. Which contacts are important to you and which ones are drifting away and need to be reconnected with.
I think it's doing a little more than that:

"Caspy’s AI learns from your email history to figure out what types of emails you send replies to. With that knowledge, it will alert you only when an email needs a reply."

But that's hardly AI. I think even Thunderbird does this, learns that emails I click links in or reply to are important and flag them as such.
Who said that an email that I typically reply to is more important for me to see than one that I typically wouldn't reply to?
most classical AI research was in fact around symbolic logic which is basically if statements.