Google quietly ditched plans for an A.I.-powered chatbot app for Gen Z

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Google quietly ditched plans for an AI-powered chatbot app for Gen Z

was working on an artificial intelligence-powered mobile chatbot app for Gen Z users that features interactive digital characters, CNBC has learned.

Called "Bubble Characters," the app featured a choice of a talking digital character that would interact in conversations with Gen Z users, according to internal documentation viewed by CNBC. The company had been working on it since Q4 2021. Google declined comment to CNBC. "What started out as something from a science fiction novel, became the next generation of human-level conversation," the app's description read.

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