With the help of Gemini Pro and other language models, Google believes it can finally build truly universal digital assistants that succeed where Alexa and Siri never could.
“I’ve had this vision in my mind for quite a while,” says Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind and the leader of Google’s AI efforts. Hassabis has been thinking about and working on AI for decades, but four or five years ago, something really crystallized. One day soon, he realized, “we would have this universal assistant. It’s multimodal, it’s with you all the time.” Call it the Star Trek Communicator; call it the voice from Her; call it whatever you want.
5 Pro, the latest version of Google’s mainstream large language model, was ready, Hassabis says he knew the underlying tech was good enough for something like Astra to begin to work well. But the model is only part of the product. “We had components of this six months ago,” he says, “but one of the issues was just speed and latency. Without that, the usability isn’t quite there.” So for six months, speeding up the system has been one of the team’s most important jobs.
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