Report: Google has looked at integrating LaMDA into Assistant since 2020 As part of the LaMDA announcement in May of 2021, Google cited Assistant, Search, and Workspace as products where it hopes to “incorporat[e] better conversational features.” A new report today looks into Google’s reluctance to launch and incorporate LaMDA into products before OpenAI and Microsoft. The Wall Street Journal today detailed Google’s history with chatbots. Before LaMDA, there was Meena, which was first publicized in early 2020. The Google Brain team published a research paper that described a chatbot “that can chat about anything.” This end-to-end trained neural conversational model tries to understand the context of a conversation to provide a sensible reply. At the time, the team wanted [...]