[dhugiaskmak]

This isn't Jimmy Growthtard's useless MVP. It's not a stretch to think that Google and their massive, massive, massive set of training data (i.e. everyone's e-mail) should be able to do better out of the box. Not being able to tell the difference between promotions and bank statements or travel bookings is a pretty huge failure to me.

[SEMW]

The problem being there's no universal definition of "better". My guess is it's not a matter of "not being able to tell the difference" - it's putting bank statements in 'promotions' because people have been putting their bank statements there. People who want to receive them for their records, but not have them 'in their face' in their primary inbox.

(Should those people have put dragged them to another tab - maybe 'Updates' rather than 'Promotions'? Possibly. If you think so, drag them to there instead. That'll change it for you, and presumably, if enough people do that it'll eventually change the categorisation for everyone who hasn't changed it themselves).

[IanCal]

What training data? They've got unlabelled data, not labelled data. Also, all they could provide is really a one-size-fits-all solution, after that it can train to your own needs.

[soperj]

Hold up, you get bank statements by email? Which bank to you use so that I can avoid them completely.