Google Assistant development team is assigned to work on Bard

According to 9to5google, the team working on Google Assistant is now assigned to work on the company’s conversational chatbot Bard.

ChatGPT created momentum in tech that is reshaping the whole industry in a short time. Google, whose reign was in danger because of ChatGPT, launched Bard to catch up with the competition. The company has now tasked the Google Assistant development team to work on Bard and make it better.

While Google Assistant and Bard might seem like two separate services, they have many similarities. Both rely on conversational AI to perform tasks, and advanced language processing is the core part of both. Google Assistant has over 700 million monthly active users, and Google hopes the Assistant team could apply its experience and knowledge to turn Bard into a tough rival of ChatGPT.

The Google Assistant development team is now working on Bard

Vice president and general manager of Google Assistant Sissie Hsiao has just announced that early access to Bard is opening up in certain regions. This means Google is gradually preparing to open Bard to the public in the near future.

The Google Assistant development team is one of the most experienced teams within the company. Sissie Hsiao has been on Google since 2006 and has worked on various projects like Analytics, Search, and advertising. Appointing such an experienced team to work on Bard shows Google’s determination to AI competition, especially with ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing.

In the past few years, Hsiao and her team have been focused on improving the conversational features of Google Assistant. The app is now much better at processing language and understanding speeches at a high level.

Google also brought the Look and Talk feature to Nest Hub Max to replace the “Hey Google” hotword. To start a conversation, the feature looks for particular parameters like gaze direction, face match, and head orientation.

Bard is yet another experimental project for Google that serves as a data collection tool. Given the rapid growth of AI and its integration into different services, Bard might later find its way toward Google services.