Google is working on an artificially intelligent messaging app, report says

Google may have a new artificial intelligence project in the works.

The company is working on a new messaging app that uses artificial intelligence to provide users with answers to search queries, according to a new report.

Details on exactly how the messaging service would work are slim but chatbots could play a significant role, according to The Wall Street Journal who first reported the plans. The goal, according to the report, is to allow users to engage with chatbots as another means of accessing search results and other information

In addition to messaging friends, users of the unnamed service could engage with chatbots to get answers to questions they may otherwise use Google's search engine for. The company would "steer users to specific chatbots, much as its search engine directs users to relevant websites," the report says. Additionally, Google may open the service to third-party developers who would build their own bots to run on the service. Read more...