Facebook Messenger chatbots: How do you use them?

Facebook has begun rolling out its new chatbot platform on Messenger, and it's available to try out right now. The long-awaited'Bot Platform' was unveiled by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the first day of the F8 developer conference, and the company hopes it's going to change the way we all use the web. Rather than browsing the latest news, communicating with businesses and buying goods through standard sites and apps, Facebook's bots make it possible to do it all through Messenger - theoretically, you should be able to get what you're looking for by speaking to the bots in natural language. The platform is currently the beta stage and it's only working with a few US-based companies. But it's already possible to get a little taste of what this technology can do.