When Shortwave first launched, the app was designed to make it easier for you to summarise dreadfully long emails. A year later, the app has added artificial intelligence (AI) to further improve that function.

Shortwave’s new AI feature is run by OpenAI’s GPT-3 and is available for free on all platforms. However, the AI-powered update is still in beta as the company cleans it up. Shortwave says it tested the new feature on simple emails to basic newsletters, all the way up to scanning multiple emails in a short period of time.

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A typical email summary would let you know “what it is about, who is involved, and what action needs to be taken,” says Shortwave.

Smart Summaries excel at untangling complex threads. Maybe the subject matter is full of complicated terminology, or maybe it’s in a different language altogether. It should still pull together something that makes sense to you (and doesn’t take much time to read).

It’s also a great jargon buster. It’ll summarise emails with complicated terms into simpler language that’s easy to understand. For example, it renders legal and scientific terms into paragraphs that don’t require several years of law school to comprehend.

“This is just the first step towards something much larger for the future of Shortwave – and the future of email,” notes the platform in a blog post.

Source: TechCrunch