Google is working on a new messaging app that will employ artificial intelligence to bring some of the company’s data smarts to a chat bot service in the software, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

The new chat service would allow users to talk with friends or ask questions of the chat bot, which would attempt to find answers from Google’s vast map of the Internet, the newspaper said. The launch date isn’t known.

Users can already do that to a certain extent with the voice search function built into Google’s search bot on mobile and the Web. By saying “OK Google,” users can ask questions in a number of areas and the service will report back an answer.

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