Facebook's AI lab open sources bot-building library and research

Facebook's AI Research (FAIR) lab announced Thursday that it's open-sourcing fastText, a library of code for text representation and classification. Additionally, it's publishing its research related to fastText. In a blog post, FAIR said it was sharing the code and research to "ultimately help us all design better applications and further advances in language understanding." The move could help developers build better bots, which are vulnerable to plenty of flaws but are quickly occupying Facebook's Messenger service. As of late July, Facebook said there were more than 18,000 bots on Messenger.