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 ...

Real human friends are soon to be out-of-date in Silicon Valley.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

As well as chatting to people on Facebook, you'll soon be conversing with 'bots', i.e. computers that use artificial intelligence to sound like humans. The aim is that firms will use bots to help ...

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 ...

Last month, a new social-media app started making the rounds. On SocialAI, the pitch goes, you’re always the “main character,” you’ll always get engagement, your replies will always be full, and ...

The post that appeared on Buffy Sobol Johnson’s Facebook feed gave the Lakeville resident pause. “What was your experience with the worst restaurant in Lakeville?” someone recently asked, unleashing a ...

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.