Facebook Messenger to be filled with robots that will try to sell users things based on their data
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Facebook’s new Messenger robots will be able to message people when companies think that they’re not buying enough. The site introduced its new chatbot platform at its F8 conference, proclaiming that it could change sales and customer service by allowing people to talk to artificially intelligent machines run by companies. With the new chatbots, if a company is concerned that you haven’t chatted to it for a while, it will be able to send a Facebook presented the new bots primarily as a way of chatting to companies to get help from them.
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