Facebook will focus on Messenger Chatbots during the F8 Conference.Facebook Inc., is all set to host its yearly F8 conference that will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center. The company is likely to discuss about various relevant subjects which encompasses one of the most intriguing topics such as chatbots.
Recently, the social media giant started to experiment with artificial intelligence chatbot. The bot has the ability to describe images via voice assistance to its users who are visually impaired. At that instance, many analysts claimed that this was an initiative taken by the tech behemoth to take artificial intelligence to a whole new level. Now it seems like bot will be the major highlight of the evening.
The company is keen about integrating chatting services and applications with bots. Third party businesses can communicate with consumers via Facebook Messenger. When last year conference was held, FB came up with Messenger Platform that allowed developers to garner access to a consumer base of 900 million individuals. The bots will now make their way to Messenger and will now have various plugins devoted to businesses.
At present, Facebook is offering developers with API tools to come up with Live Chat plugins and bots for businesses. The company gives a platform for businesses to locate technology and service providers to come up with advertisements, community management and analytics. However, it does not give a badge or any distinguishing labels for all those businesses that make use of Messenger also.
Chatbots are extremely useful when it comes to responding to queries by consumers via automated systems. As per a presentation that was given by the developers of the chatbots, the company considers these bots to be as “Structured Messages”. For instance, KLM, Lyft and Uber are making use of integrated systems for interaction purposes. This is the same way other companies will make use of chatbots for interactions in the times to come. It is alos devising new options such as “Message Us” in the form of buttons on the Facebook Pages, so that communication becomes easier.
Other than that, Messenger has also come up for a search bar for the brands along with a suggestion list that giving businesses an option to communicate with. However, at this point it is quite unclear which brand will intrigue customers to communicate with.
Apart from Facebook and the Messenger chatbots, the conference will also cater to virtual reality. The company has already started the shipment of Oculus Rift because of which immersive content and 360 videos are likely to be in the limelight. The tech giant might seize this opportunity to reveal its plans so as to how developers can make use of the video format for virtual reality and thus use it while developing applications.
The company is on the right track and it investing correctly on all those things which can eventually churn out revenues for them. The F8 Conference will help bring the developers and the company on the same page so that both can function together for the benefit of one another.
Recently, the social media giant started to experiment with artificial intelligence chatbot. The bot has the ability to describe images via voice assistance to its users who are visually impaired. At that instance, many analysts claimed that this was an initiative taken by the tech behemoth to take artificial intelligence to a whole new level. Now it seems like bot will be the major highlight of the evening.
The company is keen about integrating chatting services and applications with bots. Third party businesses can communicate with consumers via Facebook Messenger. When last year conference was held, FB came up with Messenger Platform that allowed developers to garner access to a consumer base of 900 million individuals. The bots will now make their way to Messenger and will now have various plugins devoted to businesses.
At present, Facebook is offering developers with API tools to come up with Live Chat plugins and bots for businesses. The company gives a platform for businesses to locate technology and service providers to come up with advertisements, community management and analytics. However, it does not give a badge or any distinguishing labels for all those businesses that make use of Messenger also.
Chatbots are extremely useful when it comes to responding to queries by consumers via automated systems. As per a presentation that was given by the developers of the chatbots, the company considers these bots to be as “Structured Messages”. For instance, KLM, Lyft and Uber are making use of integrated systems for interaction purposes. This is the same way other companies will make use of chatbots for interactions in the times to come. It is alos devising new options such as “Message Us” in the form of buttons on the Facebook Pages, so that communication becomes easier.
Other than that, Messenger has also come up for a search bar for the brands along with a suggestion list that giving businesses an option to communicate with. However, at this point it is quite unclear which brand will intrigue customers to communicate with.
Apart from Facebook and the Messenger chatbots, the conference will also cater to virtual reality. The company has already started the shipment of Oculus Rift because of which immersive content and 360 videos are likely to be in the limelight. The tech giant might seize this opportunity to reveal its plans so as to how developers can make use of the video format for virtual reality and thus use it while developing applications.
The company is on the right track and it investing correctly on all those things which can eventually churn out revenues for them. The F8 Conference will help bring the developers and the company on the same page so that both can function together for the benefit of one another.