Generative AI ‘rescues’ voice assistants

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Last month, generative AI startup sensation OpenAI announced the launch of its GPT-4o model, which is capable of accepting any combination of text, audio, and image, and generating any combination of text, audio, and output. image.

One of the most important features is that this model will be offered for free, in contrast to the company’s previous models, in addition to being “much faster.”

In this case, the explorations of capabilities are diverse and include everything from visual narratives to games such as “rock, paper, scissors.” In addition, it also has high performance and speed in text intelligence, reasoning and coding, setting new standards in multilingual, audio and vision capabilities.

Samsung wants Bixby to be reborn

In February, after the launch of the Galaxy S24 devices, Samsung announced the incorporation of AI to its Bixby assistant, which has different applications, such as translating in real time, in addition to creating web page summaries, correcting spelling and organizing files with automated note covers.

In this case, an important aspect is that since the device was launched, the AI ​​functions have been applied to all the languages ​​​​with which the assistant works: Chinese, English (United States, United Kingdom and India), French, German, Italian , Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain) and Spanish (Latin America).

Alexa pending and Cortana discontinued

In mid-2023, Amazon announced that it was entering the era of generative AI, but until now all the functions that were shown back then are not yet available globally.

For example, the company revealed a function called Character.ai, with which you can chat with many famous people through a chatbot, this includes living people, who are part of the story, or fictional characters.

The company highlighted other tools for people living with a disability based on AI-based devices such as Eye Gaze, whose objective is to operate the screen of the brand’s tablets only with your eyes without the need to use your voice or hands. no moment. However, these features have taken a while to become available.

On the other hand, Windows announced the retirement of its voice assistant starting in the spring of 2023, a decision that was not liked by company users, as it was a relevant part of the identity of the operating system. As a substitute, Microsoft has encouraged the use of another tool, Copilot, which is based on ChatGPT.