Future Google Messenger will answer the questions no worse than your friends.

According to the newspaper The Wall Street Journal , which has its sources in Google, the Internet giant is working on a new mobile messenger, which will combine a system for communication between people and automatic chat bots that answer questions in free form. .

Google has long been trying to push other giants like Facebook in the field of social networks and instant messengers, but so far their products are not widely popular among users. For example, WhatsApp, recently purchased by Facebook, is one of the most popular mobile messaging apps available today.

Google wants to combine in one application both messaging with friends and its corporate dream of a system close to artificial intelligence answering user questions, just like the search engine is trying to do.

According to information from sources close to the company, this system will be framed in the form of chat bots, which will be able to ask questions and who will then look for answers to them on the Internet.
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According to the same rumors, Nicholas Fox , Vice-President of Google Communications, who has been with the company since 2003, has been managing the project for more than a year. And in October, Fox, they say, even made an offer to buy a startup 200 Labs Inc, engaged in the development of intelligent chat bots - but was refused.

In particular, 200 Labs Inc has developed several chat bots for the Telegram messenger, in which bots are one of the main features of the system, and are now working on a meta-bot that can choose the best available bots to answer your request.

Among the groundwork of Google in the field of AI already have a chat bot trying to communicate with people. In the summer of 2015, the company talked about the bot, which automatically learns to engage in dialogue with people based on a large database of movie scenarios.