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Facebook Messenger's new bots are a powerful way to target adverts
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 13.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, marketing, texting
Summary | Bots are becoming more and more popular and are taking over apps. Facebook Messenger will soon have its bots. Three types of bots were unveiled at a conference in San Francisco. The goal is to create bots that will learn what you like and don't like. But then, Facebook can let brands get in touch with you through Messenger; it's a marketing/advertising strategy.
Image Description | Photographs of different smartphone screens displaying chat conversations.
Image Tags | smartphone, text
Facebook’s 'spammy' chatbots must improve - and fast
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 14.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, marketing
Summary | Facebook's chatbots must improve; people have been complaining about bots' nonsensical answers and spams. Chatbots are not new, but thanks to Facebook, brands and publishers can reach users more easily.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone displaying the Messenger Platform beta, screenshots of three conversations with bots
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone, text, Twitter
How Facebook plans to take over the world
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, virtual reality
Summary | Facebook has been constantly evolving to adapting to current trends. The first stage was "personal"; people would share their thoughts and status. The second stage was pictures, and now it's "instant articles". Facebook has a great capacity for transformation. Facebook also tried to be a news industry, and also set its sights on services such as bookmarking, 360-degree video, customer service robots, payments and virtual reality. Facebook's stage 4 is live video, and stages 5 and 6 might be artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
Image Description | Four photographs of Mark Zuckerberg at conferences, and photograph of attendees at a conference
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Please, Facebook, don't make me speak to your awful chatbots
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 29.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Chatbots are the future! Soon, you'll be able to do everything thanks to chatbots (e.g. order a pizza, schedule a meeting). With Facebook, the idea is to introduce third-party bots into Messenger. Existing chatbots are not perfect yet; they are still slow and don't always understand everything. Facebook's goal is to create something flawless, a platform for your phone where you'll be able to book a table, pay a bill, order a cab, check the weather, and manage your relationships.
Image Description | Photograph of Mark Zuckerberg speaking in front of a giant screen displaying the Messenger platform, photograph of engineer Charles Lawson lighting a robot's cigarette, screenshot of a tweet, photograph of a smartphone screen displaying WeChat.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone, text, Twitter
Facebook wants to kill off the phone number in 2016: Claims system is from the 'flip phone era' as it reveals Messenger now has more than 800 MILLION users
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 8.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, texting
Summary | More than 800 million people use Facebook Messenger. Facebook wants to 'kill off the phone number' and attract even more users thanks to more features. Texting and SMS were flip phone communication styles. Now we can do much more with our smartphones, and new communication styles are appearing. With Messenger, Yes, you can text, send stickers, photos, videos, voice clips, GIFs, and even money to people. You can call people and you don't even need to know people's phone numbers anymore. Facebook also wants to introduce its digital virtual assistant called "M" into Messenger
Image Description | Photograph of Mark Zuckerberg, chart displaying Messenger statistics, illustrations of two smartphones displaying a conversation with "M", and photograph of a finger touching a screen displaying several icons.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo, male(s), smartphone, text
Facebook uses AI to help blind people 'see' the site: Feature uses audio and image recognition to describe scenes in photos
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 5.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Facebook introduced Automatic Alternative Text; it uses artificial intelligence to help blind people "see" posts. Automatic Alternative Text uses 'neural network' to recognize specific items in photos using millions of examples.
Image Description | Photograph of three smartphone screens displaying Facebook posts, photograph of two hands holding a smartphone, and screenshot of an iPhone's "accessibility" functions
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), smartphone
Siri, Alexa and Other Virtual Assistants Put to the Test
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 27.1.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google
Summary | The five major tech companies now all offer artificial intelligence assistants: Apple with Siri, Microsoft with Cortana, Amazon with Alexa, Facebook with M, and Google. They were all put to the test with a few tasks: find out who is playing in the upcoming Super Bowl, play some music, schedule something one's calendar, book a flight, find out about the traffic situation, and find nearby restaurants and order food. None of the AI assistants did perfectly with the highest score of 3.1 out of 4.0 going to Google.
Image Description | Drawing of the five AI assistants as little robots with name tags and their overall score.
Image Tags | Facebook, Google
Blind Facebook users 'see' photos
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 5.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, diversity, Facebook, Instagram
Summary | Facebook has a new function that is meant to make the predominantly visual platforms of Facebook and Instagram more inclusive to people with visual impairments. The new software uses artificial intelligence to tell blind users what is in the images. It is not perfect yet but the image recognition can identify simple things like specific sports, etc.
Image Description | Screenshots of Facebook feeds with the image content captioned.
Image Tags | Facebook
'Chatbots' are coming
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 7.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, research/study, WhatsApp
Summary | The future is artificially intelligent. All major digital companies seem to see the most potential in messenger-based, artificially intelligent chatbots. Studies have shown that people value messaging services most highly on their smartphones so any innovation needs to be accessible through a messaging service. WhatsApp is a very significant one, it has 900 mio users.
Image Description | Getty image of Mark Zuckerberg in front of the Facebook Messenger logo and a screenshot of an Uber chatbot conversation.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s)
'Chat bots' ready to take aim at big money
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 13.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, marketing
Summary | Facebook is opening its messenger to businesses. They can now market their services on the Facebook messenger and enable users to make purchases or talk to cusomer service through the messenger. The service is operated by artificial intelligence chatbots and is an attempt by Facebook to "own more of consumers' 'mobile moments.' "
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