2024 will be a very interesting year in terms of digital assistants for smartphones, and OpenAI doesn’t want ChatGPT to be left out, even though it undoubtedly has a much harder time than its main competitors in this regard. Obviously. Key to this coming revolution is artificial intelligence, which aims to fundamentally change the way we interact with our smartphones for many tasks, and what we can expect from them.

The year 2023 was, as we have said on previous occasions, the year of artificial intelligence, because although it had already gained importance in previous years, it was last year that there was a big take-off of services based on artificial intelligence, as well as some advances. … quite interesting in terms of computational AI on the client. Now, while we won’t see as many surprises during 2024 (and probably 2025 as well), that doesn’t mean there won’t be significant progress, in fact it just means that We have already normalized how the reach increases by the minute.

In the specific case of digital assistants, it is clear that Apple and Google have a privileged position, although history has already taught us that this alone is not a guarantee of success. If we start with Apple, it is known that one of its big plans for 2024 includes the renewal of Siri, which will be based on the LLM designed by those from Cupertino for this purpose (among others). And as for Google, we also expect Bard to come to Google Assistant available on Android devices, and also Pixie, which aims to be an exclusive assistant for Pixel devices.

Now, as I said earlier, OpenAI doesn’t want to stay at the door of what’s to come, and according to AndroidAuthority, it already is is preparing ChatGPT to become the default assistant on Android. We can tell by finding that version 1.2023.352 of the ChatGPT app for Android, released last month, contains this interesting string: “com.openai.voice.assistant.AssistantActivity.” Its default state is disabled, but if enabled and started manually, an overlay will appear on the screen that replicates part of the visual aspect of the ChatGPT application, in the same way that the ChatGPT wizard is normally displayed. . Google.

Although there is no official information about itOr, if it can tell us about Google’s plans to enable the use of additional assistants in the default system role in Android. And I think if that were the case, it would be a big win for the tech company because it wouldn’t have to face regulators for abuse of dominance. However, it remains to be seen how this will develop. And also, of course, how Apple deals with iOS in this regard.