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> Today, 3 billion users rely on Gmail to connect and get things done. AI has been a big part of that

I highly doubt AI had anything to do with that, and it was more to do with the Gmail service being in use for over 2 decades.

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If spam filtering counts as "AI" then yes

I doubt it does given the spam filtering has again, been there for 2 decades.

We’ve had AI for decades, just not the kind of low-value, high-priced slop generators that are synonymous with AI today.

I assume Google just wants to rebrand Bayesian analysis as “AI” so it can claim it’s been doing that for decades.

What about yahoo and hotmail then?

What about them? Gmail 'beat' them years ago thanks to a generous amount of storage on the free tier, hype marketing at launch, and a vastly superior spam filter.

Not one part of that was down to AI.

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