Facebook Brings ‘Chatbots’ to Messenger

Facebook on Tuesday extended its reach beyond online socializing by building artificial intelligencepowered “bots” into its Messenger application to allow businesses to have software engage in lifelike text exchanges. The move announced at the leading online social network’s annual developers conference in San Francisco came as the number of monthly users of Messenger topped 900 million and the Silicon Valley company works to stay in tune with mobile Internet lifestyles. “We think you should be able to text message a business like you would a friend, and get a quick…

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Facebook Brings ‘Chatbots’ to Messenger

Facebook on Tuesday extended its reach beyond online socializing by building artificial intelligencepowered “bots” into its Messenger application to allow businesses to have software engage in lifelike text exchanges. The move announced at the leading online social network’s annual developers conference in San Francisco came as the number of monthly users of Messenger topped 900 million and the Silicon Valley company works to stay in tune with mobile Internet lifestyles. “We think you should be able to text message a business like you would a friend, and get a quick…

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