CNBC's Jennifer Elias that says the Google Assistant division has been "reshuffled" to "heavily prioritize" Bard over the Google Assistant. If we assume the idea of the Google Assistant—a voice assistant that helps you do things—isn't completely dead at Google, you could imagine a future where Bard's language model helps it understand what you want to do and will do it, but it feels like the service is years away from something like that. The Assistant today doesn't have language model problems, though, just voice recognition problems, and Bard won't help with that