Google may be engaged on creating synthetic intelligence (AI) chatbots that may play a personality whereas interacting with customers. These character-focused chatbots will be modelled after a celeb or be customised by customers based mostly on their creativeness, in accordance with the report. It’s stated that these chatbots shall be powered by the tech big’s in-house massive language mannequin (LLM) Gemini. In contrast to the present Gemini AI chatbot, these customisable bots are stated to be designed to have conversations and never simply to reply person queries.
Google Is Engaged on Character-Based mostly AI Chatbots
In line with a report by The Info (by way of 9to5Google), Google needs to construct AI-based chatbots that may be a good friend to individuals as a substitute of a query-solving assistant. The publication acknowledged that the corporate has been engaged on constructing these chatbots for some time now. These shall be customisable AI bots “which might be modelled on celebrities or made by customers.”
The report additionally highlights that Google may accomplice with social media influencers to create chatbots based mostly on their personalities. These bots are stated to be powered by Gemini, however it’s presently unclear whether or not it could use the Gemini 1.5 Professional or Gemini 1.0 mannequin. It’s stated to be a standalone mission, and it’s not being developed for a particular Google platform.
Nevertheless, the report highlights that the corporate has mentioned plans to ultimately combine the chatbots with YouTube.
Based mostly on the small print shared within the report, it seems that these chatbots might be just like the AI characters made by Meta. The social media big partnered with a number of in style influencers and celebrities akin to Kendall Jenner, Charli D’Amelio, MrBeast, Snoop Dogg, Tom Brady, and extra, and launched their AI characters on the Messenger app. Related chatbots are additionally utilized by just lately launched social media platform Butterflies.
Character-based chatbots had been popularised by the AI platform Character.ai, the place customers can create AI bots by including a textual content immediate describing the character and its persona. The platform lets customers work together with characters akin to Sherlock Holmes, Tony Stark, Elon Musk, Batman, and extra.
Aside from these, the platform additionally presents chatbots made for particular function akin to a Writing Helper, Story Maker, Relationship Coach, and others. Notably, Character.ai makes use of Google’s cloud companies and Tensor Processing Models (TPUs) to coach its AI fashions.