Why Google is set up perfectly to build an AI messaging app

The WSJ wrote about Google building a chaterbot app to compete with FB Messenger, WeChat and WhatsApp. Everything that Google does will become infused with its AI and deep-learning expertise transforming the Computer Human Interface into a conversation between the human and the computer.

Google has one asset that no one else has to succeed in building a chatbot that answers user questions, it huge data store of 18 years of Google searches. With a little more polish to decide on the best answer, the chatbot would be very good at answering peoples’ texted questions.