Proactive provision of new content to group chat participants

Abstract

Described herein are techniques for automated assistants that exchange threads for multi-participant messages (e.g., group chats, where spoken messages Participants in audio and / or video calls, etc., with copies left for analysis, proactively provide content. In various implementations, an automated assistant, which may not be explicitly invoked, may analyze the content of and / or documents associated with a message exchange thread involving multiple human participants. Based on the analysis, the automated assistant can identify topics related to the message exchange thread. Based on the individual participant profiles associated with the participants, the automated assistant can identify shared interests of the participants. The automated assistant can then select and proactively provide new content to one or more participants based both on the topic of interest and the participants' shared interests.

Description

Background technique [0001] Humans can utilize interactions referred to herein as "automated assistants" (also referred to as "chatbots," "interactive personal assistants," "intelligent personal assistants," "personal voice assistants," "talking agents," etc.) Formal software applications to participate in human-computer dialogue. For example, humans (who may be referred to as "users" when interacting with automated assistants) can provide commands, queries, and and / or requests (collectively referred to herein as "queries"), the spoken natural language input may in some cases be converted to text and then processed. [0002] In many cases, multiple users can communicate with each other by exchanging messages in message exchange threads (often referred to as "group chats"). Each user may incorporate messages into the message exchange thread by typing text or by providing spoken input (which may be converted to text prior to merging). Some message exchange threads may be form...

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