During TGIF, another of the most popular questions asked what was happening with Nest and if it's still a "critical part" of Google's hardware program. Google did announce the new Pixel Tablet, which offers several smart-home features - but the Nest name was hardly uttered during the day. Google's voice concierge wasn't the only product MIA from I/O - Nest, the company's line of smart-home products, was nowhere to be found. If Assistant is set for an LLM-based boost, Google might want to get its skates on: Amazon is also working to reboot its Alexa assistant with ChatGPT-like technology, Insider recently reported. Pichai followed up by remarking that the company was focused on "making Bard better" but did not comment on the future of Assistant. "Over time those learnings will translate into the other products, so it's just something we're continuing to explore and learn from," she said. Hsiao said the team was "learning a lot" about the core technology of Bard, which, it sounds like, could prove fruitful for Assistant. Hsiao said the vision for Assistant was to "build a natural and conversational helper," while Bard is an "experiment with an LLM" to help users explore their imagination. Hsiao suggested that Assistant could be improved by the learnings of Bard. Google also recently reshuffled its Assistant team to focus more on Bard, CNBC previously reported. All of this has some employees wondering if Google plans to converge Assistant with its chatbot Bard, per one of the top-voted questions asked during the company's all-hands, known as "TGIF," held Thursday.ĬEO Sundar Pichai said there was "a reason" the Assistant team was also working on Bard, before handing it over to Sissie Hsiao, Google's head of Assistant and Bard. The Google Assistant has taken a leading role at the company's I/O conferences in the past, yet the voice assistant was nowhere to be found during the 2023 show, which was dominated by generative-AI products. The company told staff in a meeting that learning by Bard could give Assistant a shot in the arm.Some employees are wondering what's up with Assistant and Nest.Generative AI was undoubtedly the star of Google's I/O developer conference. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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