Google is reportedly working on another mobile messaging service that will greatly focus on the artificial intelligence, according to a Wall Street Journal article. The platform is expected to include plenty of what is known as the "chatbots" for answering different questions from the users, which is quite like an "OK Google" for the in-chat service.
This Google effort is apparently being headed by Nick Fox, the company's VP of communications products. It was a couple of months when Fox was reported to have been turned down in his effort to buy a small company that specializes in Artificial Intelligence assistants, the 200 Labs, whose intellectual property could have been injected into the unnamed piece of work.
The WSJ puts forward the idea that Google, which is falling behind in the aspect of messaging space as compared to rival companies such as the Tencent Holdings of China (WeChat), Facebook (WhatsApp and Messenger), and Naver of South Korea, through its Japanese outlet, the NHN Japan (Line), is planning to get closer to the service, which is reported to have been going some development for more than a year.
In terms of its function, the "chatbots" are going to be tipped to address natural language questions, a technological reply to the recently employed Messenger-based M virtual assistant of Facebook. Google is believed to make their services become accessible to the developers in order to prompt for the third-party bot interconnected system, Venture Beat reported.
Google has been a participant in the aspect of instant messaging services, given its latest offering, the "Hangouts", and having been successful in fulfilling the many years of changes from the former Google Talk, the company's previous primary IM offering. But, an Alphabet subsidiary was able to realize that social has become more difficult to break compared to some of the other core businesses, in terms of Google+social network, PC World wrote.
