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TL;DR
- A leaked memo reveals Google remains to be behind Google Assistant, even when it appears doomed within the age of ChatGPT.
- The memo says Google is including LLM smarts to Assistant to make it “supercharged.”
- Sadly, inner restructuring has necessitated some crew members being dropped.
Again at Google I/O in Could, we heard all about AI. In truth, in the event you replay the keynote and drink each time you hear the time period “AI,” you’d doubtless die earlier than the top of it. One factor we didn’t hear a lot about at I/O, nevertheless, was Google Assistant.
What probability does Assistant even have in a world with ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and even Google’s personal Bard? This realization has precipitated some folks to query whether or not or not Assistant is doomed. Fortunately, that doesn’t look like the case now that we’ve seen a leaked memo on the matter (through Axios).
The memo — which was meant to be inner among the many people at Google who work on Assistant, Bard, and associated groups — explains some restructuring taking place on the firm. Groups are being shuffled round with one specific function: “to discover what a supercharged Assistant, powered by the newest LLM [large language model] expertise, would seem like.” Google says it’s “deeply dedicated” to Assistant and is aware of it’s the key to serving to to satiate “folks’s robust want for assistive, conversational expertise that may enhance their lives.”
The memo additionally says the corporate is “beginning with cell” for this journey. It’s not clear what meaning, however Assistant for Android already has one LLM-powered trick within the works: summarizing net pages, per 9to5Google. It’s doubtless a variety of the LLM-powered options on the best way to Assistant will come to Android/iOS first.
Theoretically, these LLM smarts would additionally come to sensible residence merchandise powered by Assistant, akin to sensible audio system and sensible shows. Nevertheless, the memo makes no point out of those methods.
Sadly, the memo does verify that some crew members will likely be eradicated. Google is giving these affected workers a 60-day interval to seek out positions elsewhere within the firm.
