Google Assistant is one of the experiences Google has put the most effort into for years, but it could become the big G’s broken toy. And it looks like the Google Assistant division he would have gone to work at Bard.
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Google Assistant, the broken toy
From CNBC, we know that the Google Assistant division has reportedly been reassigned to prioritize its work at Bard. Knowing that the Google Assistant, like Alexa itself, hasn’t generated the expected revenue and there’s no intention on the part of the Mountain View guys to monetize it, it’s on the AI Bard’s generative that they’re going to focus.
And it is that the team in charge of the assistant is going to be moved to Bard as we know from a memo sent employees whose title already says it all: “Changes in the teams of Assistant and Bard”.
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Amar Subramany, according to Ars Technica, will be responsible for leading Bard’s engineering team. Jianchang Mao, vice president of engineering for Google Assistant, is stepping down for personal reasons.
This memo is from Sissie Hsiao, vice president and head of the Google Assistant business unit, which is in charge of training the Assistant team. He says that as Bard’s teams work, they will make sure to continue to support and focus on the opportunities ahead.
Wizard and Bard merge?
Which means that the team of assistants would already be reassigned to a support role for this Google’s open fight against ChatGPT. This move behind merging Google Assistant and Bard has its logic, since this generative AI is going to be somehow integrated into Google Search, like it happened with ChatGPT and Bing.
The fact that this team joins Bard’s is mainly because Google Assistant has also receive voice inputsimilar to text, so voice assistant capabilities can be a great help for future deployments of their generative AI.
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If Assistant continues to be alive and active, it will be thanks to a future where the language model of Bard will help the wizard to understand what you want to do, even if this goal is still far away.
Another very clear point is that we are facing a company that does not even blink an eye when it has to lock down high-caliber applications and projects, as happened last year with Stadia. And even more so when Google now needs manpower to speed up all the processes its generative AI is currently in, compared to Microsoft which keeps throwing out news related to ChatGPT and Bing.
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