New Delhi, June 7 -- Artificial intelligence pioneer and Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis has said that he would pay "thousands of dollars" to get rid of his daily emails as he gets too overwhelmed by them.

Speaking at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival on Monday, June 2, the Nobel laureate said his team at Google Deepmind is working on an AI-powered mechanism that will address this exact issue and take over the tedious task of managing email inboxes.

"I would love to get rid of my email. I would pay thousands of dollars per month to get rid of that," Hassabis said.

The new system will be aimed at helping users managing their email inboxes, sorting through mails automatically and replying to regular messages. The tool will also e...