Facebook has bold ambitions for its Messenger platform, following the announcement of new features, services and the launch of bots—chat-based interfaces designed to simulate human conversation and to ...

Facebook today heralded the promise of chatbots, while also acknowledging that the much-hyped technology is still in its infancy. Speaking to investors after its quarterly earning announcement, chief ...

CNN and NBCUniversal’s Fandango are among the first in the media and entertainment biz to tap into Facebook Messenger “bots,” which let users get automated info from artificial-intelligence agents.

Real human friends are soon to be out-of-date in Silicon Valley. Instead, your new social media friend will be an artificial intelligence bot, according to one executive from Meta, Facebook and ...

Real human friends are soon to be out-of-date in Silicon Valley. Instead, your new social media friend will be an artificial ...

Public Health England hopes the use of the bot can help boost its success rate past the 20% of participants it helped to quit smoking last year. The Facebook strategy will see Stoptober pay to push ...

Those are descriptions from federal politicians and child-safety advocates of the “sensual” and “romantic” chats Meta allowed its artificial intelligence bots on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to ...