CNBC reported that Google (Google) was originally developing a chat robot action app based on artificial intelligence (AI) and providing interactive digital characters for Generation Z users, but it seems to have quietly abandoned the development of the new project recently.
Generation Z refers to the young people born between the mid-to-late 1990s and the early 2010s.
CNBC reported that, according to information obtained, Google recently lowered the priority of the project in a wave of internal reorganization. In Google’s case, when the importance of a product is downgraded, it usually stops working on that product.
The mobile app, called “Bubble Characters,” will offer talking digital characters to talk to Gen Z users, internal documents show.
This project, which Google has been investing in since the fourth quarter of 2021, aims to provide “human-like” conversations, and mentions that Generation Z will be very interested. dialogue”. These dialogues will be powered by large language models.
In one instance mentioned in the report, a friendly voice, like a cartoon character, entered the conversation, and then not only asked questions, but even offered relationship advice.
The Generation Z chatbot is one of a series of AI developments over the past few months using Google’s large language models. Recently, however, things have changed. Executives in the Assistant division, which is responsible for virtual assistant applications and two-way conversation technology for various platforms, chose to give priority to ChatGPT competitor Bard in a recent internal reorganization. In this wave of reorganization, some key senior leaders of the department have left. Some Bubble Characters team members were asked to put development work on the Gen Z app on hold and instead work on the product until Bard was released.
(Times Information Ke Wanxiu)
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