Facebook's Just Revealed That Its Chatbots Can Negotiate as Well as Humans

Over time, the bots learned to go beyond simply mimicking humans and instead became more unpredictable with their responses. To test the model's effectiveness, Facebook created scenarios with a hypothetical set of objects. Facebook used an "end-to-end" training model, which means the process could be altered to give the algorithm other goals similar to the one in the study. In an email, Dhruv Batra, a Facebook visiting researcher who worked on the project and also teaches computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, told Inc. that Facebook doesn't have any plans to implement the technology into its product yet.