Big Tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Apple are under pressure to add “generative” AI chatbots to their longstanding voice assistants.
Google Vice President of Google Assistant and Bard Sissie Hsiao speaks at the company's annual developer conference in May. Google is pushing ahead in the race to create smarter voice assistants, announcing Wednesday it would integrate its Bard artificial intelligence chatbot into its popular voice assistant product on mobile phones in the “next few months.”new “generative” AI products since OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT last November.
In Wednesday’s announcement, which came during Google’s “Made by Google” hardware event where it announced two new Pixel phones, Google said that the product, called Assistant with Bard, was still an “early experiment” and that it would be available only to a test group at first. Other users will get access sometime in the “next few months,” but only on mobile devices.
A spokesperson for the company wouldn’t comment on when the chatbot might come to Google’s home devices, which compete directly with Amazon’s Alexa. Adding the new chatbot AI to Assistant would make it more “intuitive, intelligent and personalized,” Sissie Hsiao, vice president of Assistant and Bard, said in a blog post.
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