Facebook May Force You To Install Messenger in Your Smartphone
Social media giant Facebook has just made a huge move of transferring all of its users messaging activities from its mobile web app to Messenger.
According to a report by Tech Crunch, the social networking titan rolled out a notice to all users with a notice that says, "Your conversations are moving to Messenger." For the meantime, users can still disregard the message but may be forced to download the Messenger app soon sometime this summer.
Facebook mentioned that by doing so, it would allow the company to offer the best messaging experience possible to their more-than-a-billion user base. Currently, Facebook has been aggressively pushing its mobile messaging app to its users as it faces growing competition from other online messaging services.
In another related Facebook update on Thursday, Facebook also announced the development of 'DeepText'- a machine learning project aimed at building an artificial intelligence system that intuitively analyze the meaning behind people's online posts across 20 different languages with human-like accuracy. The Silicon Valley giant is reportedly testing its latest AI engine on Messenger, Economic Times reported.
This comes at a time when a number of companies like Google, Apple, and Microsoft are mustering their resources on AI-generated technologies and systems. The AI race is fueling recent innovation seen in the current interest over self-driving cars and deep machine-based learning initiatives.
Meanwhile, NBA has just released a Facebook Messenger chatbot just in time for the much frenzied finals between the league's top two powerhouses, the Stephen Curry-led Golden State Warriors and the LeBron James-led Cleveland Cavaliers. Users can start talking to the chatbot through short URL m.me/NBA. As per VentureBeat, the NBA bot updates users with game highlights, playoffs info, and top plays for teams and players.
In addition to NBA Finals virtual companion, more bots are reportedly arriving to the mobile app created by developers through its Bot Engine and Send/Receive application programming interface announced earlier this April.
