Gigaom AI Minute – May 26

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• Google is rolling out an enhanced version of its “smart reply” machine learning email software to “over 1 billion Android and iOS users of Gmail,” said Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a keynote at the annual Google I/O conference. Smart Reply suggests up to three replies to an email message — saving typing time, and giving users time to think through a better reply.

• Ford is experimenting with car features that could help drivers with diabetes, heart problems, and more. A heart monitor in the driver’s seat, a glucose meter in the dashboard and sensors in the car that could remotely record vital signs and send that data to a doctor during a remote consultation - also referred to as Telemedicine.

• Melinda Bates, and Jensen and Lori Huang are providing gifts to support AI4ALL. AI4ALL is a national non-profit on a mission to bring diverse voices to the field of AI. Focusing on humanistic uses for AI, the non-profit plans to use the gifts to launch new education programs for high schoolers, to offer grants for AI-related community outreach, and to expand industry and mentorship programs.

• A team at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering recently developed a nanofiber fabrication technique to manufacture heart valves with regenerative and growth potential. According to Wyss Institute Founding Director Doctore Donald Ingber, "Achieving the goal of minimally invasive, low-cost regenerating heart valves could have a tremendous impact on patients' lives across age-, social- and geographical boundaries."