The modernization of conversation During his F8 presentation, David Marcus, Facebook’s vice president of messaging products, spoke about the evolution of how we communicate with businesses.

TechCrunch reported last month that Facebook would launch these group bots today at F8.Until now, bot experiences were just you and the bot. But that puts a ton of pressure on the bot to seem human.

Facebook is trying to teach chatbots how to chit-chat. The company’s researchers say giving chatbots ‘consistent personality’ might be the key to better conversation ...

Quit your Keatsian longing: far from sans merci, Messenger’s TfL bot can give you all the bus updates you need – without a faery in sight. Search for TfL in the app, launch the bot and you’ll be able ...

Facebook users are accidentally sharing legal woes ... and users have to log in and confirm that they want to publish a conversation. However, many of the posts suggest users are unaware that their ...

Last fall, the White House experimented with a bot on its Facebook page. Developers did not make this bot a conversation partner to answer queries about White House tours or trivia. Instead, when ...

Meta’s chatbot changed its tune on the 2020 election between Sunday (left) and Wednesday (right). The site also displayed a new message saying that the bot was looking to “redirect the ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes everyone could benefit from having a therapist — but if you cannot get one, the next best thing is a personal artificial intelligence bot. The Facebook and ...