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Knowmail – AI for email

47 points| eranknow | 10 years ago |knowmail.me | reply

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[+] gravypod|10 years ago|reply
I wish someone would clone a service like this and make if self hosted. I am completely uncomfortable with sharing my email data with a third party company.
[+] eranknow|10 years ago|reply
Email data is not shared, as it remains client side, where recommendations are given per user.

No identifiable data leaves your device, and only anonymized info is utilized to build a "personal model" for a user.

[+] niix|10 years ago|reply
Agreed, or they should at least offer a self hosted option similar to the Ghost blogging platform.
[+] 6d6b73|10 years ago|reply
This has nothing to do with AI... Not long ago everything needed to have "built with JavaScript" stamp, now it must have AI to sell, but ...does it have electrolytes?
[+] TeMPOraL|10 years ago|reply
There's tons of areas where AIs, or rather, basic ML, could be used but for some reason isn't. I'm thinking about e.g. adaptive interfaces, the kind that can really be learning your habits on the fly. Think e.g. public transit app / widget that takes into account your precise location, as well as day of the week, time of the day, etc. to learn your habits and prioritize which timetables to suggest you by default (e.g. it's Wednesday evening, so you're probably coming back from work, so the default timetable will be the bus home at the stop next to work).

I tried to do exactly that for an university project, it's not very hard. Even simple methods can give pretty good results.

Google Now is about the first case I ever saw someone finally working on it, but it doesn't seem like it's a priority for them. My charitable guess is that they're afraid of confusing non-tech people.

Hell, maybe I'll write myself a watchapp.

(I started thinking a lot about this after reading a great essay by Bret Victor - http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk)

[+] eranknow|10 years ago|reply
It uses machine learning in order to build a personalized model for each user, based on their personal habits and email communication behaviors
[+] carlmcqueen|10 years ago|reply
While Machine Learning and Unsupervised vs Supervised algorithms are getting a lot of buzzwords -- language needs to exist to communicate to users what is happening.

No, this isn't 'Her' level AI prioritizing your email, but unsupervised Machine Learning is often swapped with AI to help people understand there is no staff looking at your email but there is still adapting rules customized to you, automatically.

I understand your frustration that is often felt about 'big data', 'AI', 'Machine learning', etc.

[+] joakleaf|10 years ago|reply
Can you define AI?

Machine Learning, means that there is some sort of training/learning involved, but artificial intelligence could be anything, right?

[+] eranation|10 years ago|reply
This is a much needed and welcome addition to enterprise / corporate users who must use Outlook (I assume this is an outlook extension, right?)

Seeing so many Microsoft people on the board is encouraging as well.

I wish there were more startups focusing on enterprise users.

How are you planning to survive the long and costly sale cycles to enterprises?

Are you planning also to have a gmail / other clients included?

[+] avner|10 years ago|reply
Why post this when you can't even try it. What is the point?
[+] bushido|10 years ago|reply
Been seeing a growing number of AI/Machine Learning for email entrants. The outlook plugin looks like a feature that I've not seen with similar apps.

Another app that I've played around with recently is BrainBlox[0].

[0] http://www.brainbloxapp.com/

[+] jamespo|10 years ago|reply
the site provides so little details on the implementation, is it cloud hosted, exchange plugin, ?
[+] eranknow|10 years ago|reply
Client based plugin connected to Knowmail's SaaS in order to generating the heavy modeling for each user
[+] pentium10|10 years ago|reply
it's cloud based as they note SaaS: Conducts the “heavy lifting” algorithmic analysis of the anonymized information and generates an updated mathematical model for the client.
[+] geromek|10 years ago|reply
How is this different from SaneBox.com ?
[+] wodenokoto|10 years ago|reply
Different branding, different algorithm, has an outlook plugin, has a summary function and different filters.