"This was a great opportunity for us and we were so honored to be called out by Facebook and featured by them,” Mandel says. More than 2,600 were in attendance at the conference and it was live streamed around the world.
Mandel said his team had about 60 days to build the product and they were working on it right up until the day it was unveiled, and heavily featured, at F8. "I have hardly need for a weather bot: My phone tells me that when I turn it on," he said.įor Poncho, the rough launch - reminiscent of early days of smartphone apps – seemed reflective of a rushed product cycle.
The experience was so good, "I'm sure I'll use it for Mother's Day," he said.įocused bots, or ones that don't supplant a function already performed successfully by a smartphone app, may end up the most successful ones. "Over the coming weeks and months, the bots that are available now will get better as more people interact with them, and we’ll also add more high quality bots to the platform.”Īmong Messenger’s first 30 chatbots that are living up to the hype: a service that got started when landlines were the dominant technology. “It is early days for bots on the Messenger Platform,” the company said in a statement. How do you use Facebook's new Messenger bots?įacebook Messenger chief David Marcus on chatting with botsįacebook has acknowledged its newly hatched chatbots need work. (Days after that first attempt, it was a quicker, chattier experience, though shopping still ended in dropdown menus like on the web.) "We got your note. We'll be with you shortly.” Then it finally just sent me a link to its website, adding two steps to get to Square One. Spring, a shopping concierge bot, took minutes to respond. To start our conversation, I texted the bot “Hi” and in return, it immediately started sending me daily news roundups with a variety of stories where I had the option to read or get a shortened summary. When I asked CNN’s bot to tell me news about Facebook, it responded with a "¯\_(ツ)_/¯” - literally. But the vision and reality don’t match yet, early attempts to use a few of the chatbots featured at F8 show.
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