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Google is hoping to breathe new life into Assistant by integrating its large language model chatbot Bard. Fresh leaks suggest this could launch as soon as March, bringing generative AI capabilities and improved reasoning to the voice assistant. The Google News Telegram channel first reported the date after spotting a demo video of Assistant with Bard inside the Pixel Tips app.  We haven’t been able to find the video inside the app ourselves but the video looks like a typical Google… Source link

During the Pixel 8 event, “Assistant with Bard” was announced for 2024. Before it launches on Android, Google might be dropping the “Assistant” moniker and rebrand to just “Bard.” About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android apps), we’re able to see various lines of code within that hint… Source link

Google Assistant can do an insane amount of stuff, and the list of features grows larger with each passing year — especially thanks to better generative AI support. So, just like me, it sounds like Google Assistant’s New Year’s Resolution is to shed some of the extra weight — and will be losing 17 “underutilized” features in the coming weeks.  According to Google’s announcement, it wants to focus on “experiences you love and investing in the underlying technology to make… Source link

Enlarge / Google is looking pretty dilapidated these days. Aurich Lawson Google’s cost-cutters are still working overtime, with more layoffs this week and cuts to Google Assistant functionality. First up, The New York Times reports Google laid off “hundreds” of workers in “several divisions” on Wednesday. Core engineering, the Google Assistant, and the hardware division all lost people. The report says that… Source link

Google is changing the Google Assistant, removing and changing dozens of features that some of you may have become accustomed to. Google said these changes are aimed to “focus on quality and reliability,” adding it will “ultimately make it easier to use Assistant across devices,” the company wrote. With these changes, Google also has laid off hundreds of employees who worked on Google Assistant. It makes you wonder if AI will be the future and overtake Google Assistant. Although… Source link

Playing and controlling audiobooks on Google Play Books with your voice. You can still cast audiobooks from your mobile device. Setting or using media alarms, music alarms, or radio alarms on Google Assistant enabled devices. You can create a custom Routine that has similar behavior or use a standard alarm. Accessing or managing your cookbook, transfering recipes from device to device, playing an instructional recipe video, or showing step-by-step recipes. You can use Google Assistant to… Source link

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR On January 26, 2024, Google will begin to remove nearly 20 Google Assistant features. These features include setting music alarms, invoking a stopwatch, and more. The company says it is doing this to free up resources to focus on features users care about the most. Traditionally, making a product better involves adding more features to it. However, sometimes trimming down a product is what’s most necessary, and Google is going to begin a… Source link

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Google announced on Wednesday it was laying off hundreds of staff. The cuts affect staff working on Google Assistant as well as members of Google’s devices and services team. Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images Google is laying off hundreds of staff working on its devices and services. The affected staff include those working on Google Assistant and the activity tracker Fitbit. AI upstarts such as OpenAI and… Source link

June Wan/ZDNET I’ve been using Google’s Pixel line of phones since the first one dropped years ago. But I have a confession to make: I don’t use Google Assistant all that much. I can’t explain exactly why I never got into the habit of using such a useful tool, but it never happened. Don’t get me wrong: Every so often I do say the magic phrase, “Hey Google…” followed by a question I just don’t feel like typing. And I believe that’s the crux of the issue for me. I’m a professional writer,… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I tried Google’s workplace assistant, Duet AI. Don’t trust it for anything important.  Business Insider Source link