In response to Axios (by way of 9to5Google), Google has internally introduced its plans to replace Google Assistant utilizing the most recent giant language mannequin (LLM) know-how. At present, Bard, an AI experiment by Google, is powered by PaLM 2, Google’s most superior LLM, indicating that the tech big might undertake related know-how for its digital assistant.
The interior e-mail shared by Axios reveals that the corporate has already begun engaged on the replace, beginning with the cell model of Google Assistant. This replace might probably remodel the way in which Google Assistant operates, providing new potentialities for customers, builders, and Google’s personal crew.
In response to the e-mail, Google has “seen the profound potential of generative AI to rework individuals’s lives and see an enormous alternative to discover what a supercharged Assistant, powered by the most recent LLM know-how, would appear to be.”
Along with the technical modifications, the e-mail additionally reveals some structural ones throughout the groups engaged on Google Assistant, and there are stories of worker layoffs as a consequence of these modifications. Nonetheless, in accordance with the e-mail, Google is “deeply dedicated” to its Assistant and optimistic about its “shiny future.”
Google Assistant boasts greater than 500 million month-to-month customers worldwide, however it has not obtained any massive updates lately. Nonetheless, with the continuing developments, the Assistant is predicted to realize new options and functionalities, as hinted by the inner e-mail referring to the longer term Assistant as “supercharged.”
I suppose that “supercharged” is the most recent pattern in Google’s AI growth, on condition that Bard can be launched as “your inventive and useful collaborator, right here to supercharge your creativeness, enhance your productiveness, and convey your concepts to life.”