Over the coming months, Google will deploy the Google Assistant within Messages for English users around the globe.
While announcing this on its official blog of Google Assistant in Messages, Drew Rowny, Product Lead, Messages, said the Messages app uses on-device AI to offer suggestion chips (similar to Smart Reply) relevant to your conversation, helping you quickly find & share information about 3 categories to start: movies, restaurants & weather.
Here’s the many things you will be able to do:
You can tap on the suggestion chip to learn more from your Assistant, & if you find the info is helpful, you can share the information in your conversation.
If you’re chatting about a movie, you might see a suggestion chip to learn more about that film. By tapping the chip, you can ask the Assistant to pull up a card with recent movie reviews or showtimes, which you can choose to share back into your conversation with just another tap. Of course, if you don’t choose to share that information, the other person won’t see it.
On another note, Drew writes: To improve the standard messaging experience on Android, we’ve been working with many of our ecosystem partners, including Samsung, Huawei, America Movil, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Telenor, and Vodafone to make RCS (Rich Communication Services) more widely available. Google has helped to launch RCS with partners in 24 countries, bringing enhanced features in your conversations like group chats, read receipts, and high quality media sharing. We will continue to work to bring better messaging to every Android user, regardless of their device or carrier.
