Both companies are rolling out technology that lets you talk to their chatbots in a much more natural way.
The next phase of the AI chatbot wars has begun. In the past week, both Google and the Microsoft-backed OpenAI have pointed to a future where digital assistants on our phones or other devices will have full, intelligent conversations with their users.
GPT speaks with a few different voices , and makes realistic pauses, thinking sounds and laughter. It will stop talking if you interrupt it, make jokes, and can respond to your voice, text or anything it can see or hear through a camera or microphone. It can even glean context by looking at the facial expressions of human speakers and analysing their tone.
A day after OpenAI’s announcement, Google shared a look at a very similar voice assistant advancement based on its Gemini models, called Gemini Live. But it also showed an early assistant called Project Astra, envisioning what kind of conversational AI we’ll be using a few years down the track. Then the user puts the glasses on. These are apparently glasses with cameras, microphones and speakers attached, like Meta and Ray-Ban’s Smart Glasses, and Astra can work through them. The user points to a plan for a computer server and asks Astra how to optimise it, which it does.
That ends up being the troubling thing in many current AI advances. It’s not that they’re bad, they’re just happening quickly.
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