Samsung is expected to add generative artificial intelligence technology to its voice assistant Bixby. The South Korean tech giant Samsung launched Bixby in 2017 with Samsung’s Galaxy S8 smartphone. The company introduced a number of features and updates to its voice assistant.
Samsung to redefine its voice assistant Bixby with generative AI upgrade
Chatbots are now more advanced and able to handle much more complex queries, after the emergence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and its rivals. These new-age chatbots are an example of generative AI, which allows users to prompt with a query and will generate a response in the form of text, a picture, and now even video.
“So Bixby has been a key voice assistants voice assistant for Samsung not just for the mobile devices, but also for TVs and digital appliances that exist in Samsung’s ecosystem. So it has been the core voice assistant assistant so far,” Won-joon Choi, executive vice president at Samsung’s mobile business, told CNBC in an interview last month.
“With the emergence of generative AI and LLM (large language model) technology, I believe that we have to redefine the role of the Bixby, so that Bixby could be equipped with generative AI and become more smarter in the future,” Choi said, adding this will “enable a more natural conversation and to work out an interface that supports the Samsung products in our ecosystem.”
