Google working on AI-based messaging app

The report noted that the goal of Google is to come up with something similar to the Telegram-run chatbot marketplace, which is a messaging app headed up by Vkontake co-founder Pavel Durov.

So it is no surprise that Google is testing a new artificial-intelligence based messaging app, which will function like a full-scale service.

In other Google news, the web giant is rumoured to be joining forces with automaker Ford to further its ambitions in the self-driving vehicle sector.

Gizmodo noted that the service will work like the Google SMS Search which the company shut down in 2013. It has launched its messaging platform for third-party developers for building bots that users can click on for single tasks, like GitHub updates, trivia, making friends and searching images.

The new app will provide a substitute to traditional search engine of Google when it comes to gathering information.

It is learned that Google’s new service would allow users to talk with friends or ask questions of the chat bot, which would use Google’s vast map of the Internet to find the answers.

The Google had been working in the project from last one year.

Google is not alone in trying to leverage AI as part of its messaging service.

Popular messaging apps include Facebook’s WhatsApp and Messenger services, and Tencent Holdings Ltd’s WeChat, while Google has a service called Hangouts.

All of this will be accessible via your computer should you be so inclined, but Google+ is definitely optimised for mobile devices, hence this app. It offers most of the Google+ functionality, but annoyingly omits the Hangouts feature, which reduces its appeal somewhat.