Google wants to 'supercharge Assistant' with AI as Meta gives bots a personality
The chatbot craze isn't slowing any time soon. Google is understood to be injecting generative AI features into its digital assistant. Meanwhile Meta is said to be planning to launch virtual agents with various personas.
Google Assistant was introduced in 2016, and was accessible via the web giant's Allo app and voice-controlled Home speakers to compete against Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri. As generative AI takes off, Google wants to revamp its virtual assistant by giving it advanced capabilities powered by large language models , accessible via Nest gear and cellphones.
By generative AI, that's presumably the ability to do things like create images or music out of text descriptions – what OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's own Bard can do, basically. The search king has also reorganized its teams developing Assistant: the biz has laid off dozens of staff in that area out of the thousands working on the software,The changes are part of Google's efforts to upgrade its Assistant software, and change the way it works for users, developers, and Googlers, we're told. A spokesperson for the Android maker told"Hundreds of millions of people use the Assistant every month and we're committed to giving them high quality experiences.
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