Google Joining AI Assistant Race, Adding Chatbot to Phones After Amazon

Google to add conversational AI chatbot Bard to its voice assistant on phones in coming months, after Amazon announced similar plans.

Comes as Big Tech races to roll out new "generative" AI tools following success of ChatGPT.

Google, Amazon already have user base of millions interacting with voice assistants, seen as ready testbed.

Tech still new though, bugs being worked out. Google's Bard bot previously made up info.

Google calls Assistant with Bard an "early experiment" initially limited to test group.