Google Said to Be Working on AI Chatbots Based on Celebrities

Google may be engaged on creating synthetic intelligence (AI) chatbots that may play a personality whereas interacting with customers. These character-focused chatbots could be modelled after a celeb or be customised by customers based mostly on their creativeness, based on the report. It’s stated that these chatbots shall be powered by the tech big’s in-house giant language mannequin (LLM) Gemini. Not like 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

Based on a report by The Info (via 9to5Google), Google needs to construct AI-based chatbots that may be a buddy to individuals as an alternative of a query-solving assistant. The publication said that the corporate has been engaged on constructing these chatbots for some time now. These shall be customisable AI bots “which may very well be modelled on celebrities or made by customers.”

The report additionally highlights that Google might 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 at present unclear whether or not it might use the Gemini 1.5 Professional or Gemini 1.0 mannequin. It’s stated to be a standalone mission, and it isn’t being developed for a particular Google platform.

Nevertheless, the report highlights that the corporate has mentioned plans to finally combine the chatbots with YouTube.

Based mostly on the main points shared within the report, it seems that these chatbots may very well be much like the AI characters made by Meta. The social media big partnered with a number of in style influencers and celebrities reminiscent of Kendall Jenner, Charli D’Amelio, MrBeast, Snoop Dogg, Tom Brady, and extra, and launched their AI characters on the Messenger app. Comparable chatbots are additionally utilized by not too long ago 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 reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes, Tony Stark, Elon Musk, Batman, and extra.

Other than these, the platform additionally affords chatbots made for particular function reminiscent of a Writing Helper, Story Maker, Courting Coach, and others. Notably, Character.ai uses Google’s cloud providers and Tensor Processing Models (TPUs) to coach its AI fashions.