Google Assistant to ‘supercharge’ with generative AI
Google will soon upgrade its Google Assistant with generative AI, according to an email Axios acquired. The message said, “A portion of the team has already started working on this, beginning with mobile. However, the company mentioned it removed a “small number of roles” developing the artificial intelligence upgrades.
Apple users have Siri, Amazon fans have Alexa, and Google users have the Assistant. Most people worldwide use Android, so many use the latter as a virtual voice tool. Applying generative AI to this program could significantly affect how millions use mobile phones. That includes you, especially if you don’t use Amazon and Apple products.
This article will discuss the company email regarding Google Assistant’s “supercharged” version. Later, I will cover the search engine firm’s other artificial intelligence projects.
How will the Google Assistant’s AI upgrades work?
Tech news website acquired a copy of Google’s long-term objectives for its Assistant app. Let’s see how the company may transform our online experience again:
Subject: Assistant vision and team changes
Hi team,
Since we launched Assistant seven years ago, we’ve built great experiences for the hundreds of millions of people who use it every month. And we’ve heard people’s strong desire for assistive, conversational technology that can improve their lives. As a team, we need to focus on delivering high-quality, critical product experiences for our users.
We’ve also seen the profound potential of generative AI to transform people’s lives and see a huge opportunity to explore what a supercharged Assistant powered by the latest LLM technology would look like. (A portion of the team has already started working on this, beginning with mobile.)
To do both of these things with speed and focus, we are making some changes in the organization:
We’re combining the Services and Surfaces teams, which will be led by Unni and Bryant. The Mobile team will operate separately under Minni and Zaheed. The NLP team will now be led by Xiaonan and Lisa.
Sincere thank-you to Michelle, who — on top of her day job leading infrastructure — stewarded the NLP team over the past 4 months. Michelle will now lead infrastructure at 100% capacity. Speech will continue supporting Assistant and other products, and Françoise will now report to Sissie.
As part of this update, we are also eliminating a small number of roles within the team. We have already let these teammates know, and we will provide dedicated support to help them through this transition.
Everyone impacted will have a minimum of a 60-day internal search period based on local requirements. These have been incredibly difficult decisions, so please support teammates who are processing this news.
Duke and I will host a town hall tomorrow to go through the org changes in more detail and take your questions. (We know tomorrow is a holiday in Zurich, so we’ll also host an EMEA-friendly option on Wednesday.)
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Some teams will host town halls next week — stay tuned for those calendar invitations. We remain deeply committed to Assistant, and we are optimistic about its bright future ahead.
Thanks,
Peeyush and Duke
Peeyush Ranjan is Google’s vice president, and Duke Dukellis is the company’s director of product. Axios allegedly received a message confirming Google would eliminate dozens of jobs.
What are Google’s other AI projects?
Google has been heavily pushing its artificial intelligence development. Aside from Google Assistant, it has been forming generative AI upgrades to its search engine.
Soon, it will replace the classic “10 blue links” design with AI cards. Search anything online, and it will compile information from the top ten search results.
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Then, the tech firm will show that summary to provide an answer immediately. Users may click its sources for additional details. Also, Google promises a “far more personalized experience.”
The company added AI features to the Lens app, enabling users to check skin conditions by taking pictures. Also, it teased other AI projects at its recent I/O Conference:
- A video summarization tool
- An AI-powered image generation studio
- Maya, which visualizes shoes in 3D
- The Shopping Try-on feature lets you try on clothes digitally on YouTube.
- A wallpaper creation tool for Pixel phones
- An AI app builder
Conclusion
According to a recent email, Google Assistant will soon gain generative AI upgrades. The Verge says it will turn this app into something similar to Microsoft’s Bard and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The company has not shared more details about how these improvements would change the program at the time of writing. Meanwhile, it is creating more AI projects.
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