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A couple of news items from Google today: Commencement, the company is reportedly working on a new kind of artificial intelligence-based messaging service, in an attempt to compete with Facebook's WhatsApp and Messenger, co-ordinate to the Wall Street Journal. The report said that Google plans to integrate chatbots, which answer user queries from within a messaging app after searching the Spider web for information. The idea is to provide the reply from within the context of a conversation without having to exit that conversation at any point.

"All users care nigh is a convenient way to find what they are looking for and if Google isn't in front of the consumer that is a trouble for them," said Scott Stanford, co-founder of venture-capital firm Sherpa Capital, in the commodity. "Messaging is a subset of the Cyberspace where Google is not strong. They accept to win and be the ascendant player in messaging."

Google has tried and failed to reinvent messaging, email, and social networking several times in the past decade, including Google+, Google Wave, Google Fizz, Google Messenger, and Google Hangouts. Google has been struggling to capture users that have moved on to other services like the aforementioned Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, particularly in other countries likewise the U.s.a..

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Back in January 2014, Google acquired the British bogus intelligence company DeepMind for a reported $400 million, after hiring futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil and acquiring eight robotics firms in the year prior. DeepMind aims to aid researches mine large information in an effort to boost discoveries in medicine, genomics, and more. And in November of this year, Google unveiled TensorFlow, an open-source machine learning platform that could boost its deployment of artificial neural networks. At the fourth dimension, Google called Tensorflow the company'due south "second generation" machine learning platform, successor to the older DistBelief platform that has led to many of the company's current AI-infused products.

Meanwhile, a split up Android Police report said Google has confirmed it's testing a new way to log into your business relationship from multiple devices only by using your telephone, without having to provide a password or use 2-step authentication:

"We've invited a small grouping of users to assistance examination a new fashion to sign in to their Google accounts, no password required. 'Pizza', 'password' and '123456'—your days are numbered."

That report stemmed from a Reddit user who claimed to be testing the new feature on his Nexus 6P.

There'south no word when Google plans to unveil its new messaging service or roll out the telephone-based login feature to more than users.