Bard: Google adds chatbot functions to Assistant

Bard
Google adds chatbot functions to Assistant

Google is making more use of its in-house chatbot. photo

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Innovation at Google: The voice assistant will receive support in the future. What does this mean for all users?

Google is improving its voice assistant Assistant with functions from its own chatbot Bard. The Assistant, which was previously designed for simple tasks, should be able to, for example, search for important messages in the email box, help with travel planning or write a text for a social media post.

With the combination of Bard and Assistant on smartphones, users can communicate with both voice and keyboard, as Google explained. You can also grant the software access to the camera.

Google introduced Bard as an answer to the chatbot ChatGPT. The Assistant is one of the original voice assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, whose capabilities ChatGPT suddenly overshadowed. The software developed by the start-up OpenAI can formulate sentences at the linguistic level of a human and, for example, summarize the content of long texts.

Google also presented its new Pixel 8 smartphone, which relies heavily on artificial intelligence, including in image processing.

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