@Gopal As long as they don’t turn out to be powerful AI which in turn will build a Matrix, I’m okay with the feature being there and having a small checkbox saying turn it off

@Devdas Yes, it is a hard problem, but imagining a search index for most of the world wide web which will return results in seconds was a hard problem decades ago but is a reality today.

If it was that simple for a machine to deal with messages in topic context, it would be nice.

But then, the challenge is to deal with those of us who have firehoses of email flowing in on various topics between the same set of people.

You would also need to be aware of different relationships between people, and the state of importance at that instance of time.

Of course, given that most companies still can’t get threading right, sorting by importance is hard to ask for in a deterministic fashion.

I guess, I’m a glass half-full person. But getting it half-right is not very hard, it’s just that half-right is not a milestone to evolve further from – except from inside a lab, before it is “born” into the real world. All or nothing problems require quantum leaps.