Chatbot market will reach $3,172 million by 2021, says report

Facebook has recently released a platform dubbed ParlAI that has 20 language data sets built in, along with question-and-answer examples aiming to aid developers in building conversational AI systems, by giving them a simple framework to train and test their chatbots. Antoine Bordes from Facebook's AI research lab FAIR said, "ParlAI is trying to develop the capacity for chatbots to enter long-term conversation."