Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s plans at Facebook’s annual F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco Tuesday.
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Messenger last week rolled out Messenger Codes, allowing users to scan a code to begin a chat with a business and making it easier to carry out transactions and customer service through the app. Facebook said more than 50 million businesses have pages.
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Facebook has always been adding new features in the app and has been constantly developing the messenger app as well.
The hardware and software will be open source and available on Github this summer for free, said Cox. Other themes included greater use of artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
Zuckerberg said that Facebook will focus on connectivity, artificial intelligence and augmented reality over the next 10 years.
Another update that is coming to Facebook Messenger affects the video calling segment.
The Facebook chief executive, speaking at the F8 Developers conference Tuesday, submitted a vision of the future in which everyone on the planet will have use of the networking site – a lofty goal, considering only about half the world’s population now has Internet access.
The bots that end up living on Facebook Messenger will be powered by the company’s Bot Engine – a centralised AI framework that will, in theory, become more intelligent with the more bots and human interactions it facilitates.
Facebook already has more than 30 companies in house to deploy chatbots on Messenger, including organization like Burger King, CNN, Ebay and Bank of America.
Such developers would provide companies with assistance to create systems for interacting with customers through automated chatbots responses that could be beneficial for those who are looking to modernize customer interaction but doesn’t carry the resources to do so. “The bot is created to reflect the experience of working with a personal shopper”, said Zach Miller Spring vide-president.
Facebook Inc.is releasing a host of other tools for developers to build apps that work with its services, including software for streaming video from drones and other gadgets.
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