Chatbots arrive on Facebook Messenger

As we suspected, Facebook is indeed adding chatbot support to Messenger and it's officially called "bots for Messenger." It's not really a surprise at this point, given that the latest Messenger update shows a "Bots and Businesses" section and that there've been rumors floating about it for a week now. Still, Zuckerberg and Co finally made it official. Facebook's CEO gave a demonstration on stage on how he ordered flowers from 1-800-Flowers just by sending a few messages to the company's chatbot. There was also a demo of a CNN bot that offered breaking news after sending a request.