Google Assistant reportedly pivoting to generative AI | TechCrunch
News Summary
- An internal email says that the Assistant team leads see a huge opportunity to explore what a supercharged Assistant powered by the latest LLM large language model technology would look like
- The technology has yet to prove to be a practical evolution for this corner of tech
- Alexa and Siri were more like Mad Libs where users provided the subjects and verbs like traffic downtown now or teriyaki near me and while that isn t quite what we call AI it can be very useful as an interface for simple digital interactions
When Google had its unpleasant realization that it had been complacently spinning its wheels on a form of fake AI for a decade, chances are it started realigning itself that day. And it sounds like [+1972 chars]
