TECH NEWS – This project is not the same as the Google Bard chatbot, but it may have been another idea that Alphabet, Google’s parent company, supposedly canceled.

Google Bard is intended to compete against OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing and could be joined in the future by Elon Musk, who used to call for a halt to the development of artificial intelligence, but recently stepped forward with what he claims is his project to understand the universe, xAI (we’ve written about it as X.AI). How duplicitous of the owner of Twitter to do the same thing as everyone else in such a short time, even though he was against it not so long ago.

Google was reportedly working on an app aimed at a younger age group, CNBC reports. This age group covers people born in the mid-to-late 1990s, but who started their lives in the early 2010s at the latest (approx. 1997-2012). Google’s artificial intelligence-powered chatbot was called Bubble Characters, and according to an internal document obtained by the site, users could choose a character to chat with. The app has been in the works at Google since the last quarter of 2021 (October-December) but is no longer a priority for the company, as many team members have been redirected to Bard.

It is not known if the chatbot could communicate in the tone of voice of the younger generation or if it was tuned toward the topics they were interested in. Still, according to CNBC, it could follow up questions and even give relationship advice to interested people. There are also questions about how the chatbot would have been received, and it would have depended on when Google would have released it, as it might have attracted more attention if it had been ahead of ChatGPT.

Perhaps Google thought it would not have been the right tone or information for everyone. Still, if the experience and results were incorporated into Bard, then it could be Bubble Characters’ spiritual successor.

Source: WCCFTech