Google Joining AI Assistant Race, Adding Chatbot to Phones After Amazon
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Google to add conversational AI chatbot Bard to its voice assistant on phones in coming months, after Amazon announced similar plans.
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Comes as Big Tech races to roll out new "generative" AI tools following success of ChatGPT.
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Google, Amazon already have user base of millions interacting with voice assistants, seen as ready testbed.
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Tech still new though, bugs being worked out. Google's Bard bot previously made up info.
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Google calls Assistant with Bard an "early experiment" initially limited to test group.
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