Bots - ready for prime-time?

Facebook's Messenger app displays friends and bots. Facebook thinks apps are yesterday and automated chat bots are the future. Facebook added computerized chat bots to Messenger recently with great fanfare, as a way to sell products and reach customer service from within the popular messaging app used by 900 million folks monthly. But the new computerized messages in Facebook Messenger are having a rocky rollout. Reviews have been rough--The Verge called them "painfully slow." "Still need work," said Techcrunch.