The new Google Assistant: Hands on with the supercharged chatbot

Google Assistant might have made its debut at Google I/O 2016, but this year's event was its real coming-out party. Over the past several months, Google has been steadily adding features to its AI chatbot, and now we can finally see a fuller vision for Assistant, and it goes far beyond asking questions about our day. It's my number one most-wanted feature, and will easily double the amount of time I spend using Assistant. Now, if I'm in the office or in bed, I won't have to break the silence with an inopportune "OK Google." I tried it out at I/O, and typing is just as fast as speaking--and in some cases even faster.