By nurturing an ecosystem of chat bots, Facebook could get outside developers to enhance Messenger’s value and make it more addictive.

Chat bots are chat robots — interactive software powered by artificial intelligence often with an assist from humans — that are designed to simulate human conversation.

Chat Bots Are Coming to Facebook Here's a look at some of the early settlers in chat bot land on Facebook. 1-800-Flowers Sending a message to a bot works the same way as sending a message to a friend.

More than 900 million people use Facebook Messenger every month and between Messenger and WhatsApp, 60 billion messages are processed daily. This is CNN's "first tango" with chat bots, even thought ...

Imagine ordering a pizza or flowers without ever leaving Facebook. — -- Get ready to make friends with a bunch of chat bots. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Messenger Platform at the ...