Move over, chatbots: meet the artbots
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#1AK9C)
From TwoHeadlines to Shiv Integer, artists are subverting Silicon Valley's tools to artistic ends
At Facebook's F8 conference in Silicon Valley, David Marcus, the company's head of messaging, proudly demonstrated its new suite of chatbots. Users can now get in a conversation with the likes of CNN, H&M, and HP, and ask for help shopping, or the latest headlines.
The chatbots aren't very good, but that doesn't mean Facebook isn't proud of them anyway: "I guarantee you're going to spend way more money than you want on this," Marcus chuckled on stage.
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