With all the industries being disrupted by the data deluge and the technologies associated with it, it was just a matter of time before healthcare too would be engulfed. Given the very nature of this sector where a humongous amount of data is being generated on an everyday basis, and accurate decision-making in real-time is the key, one can understand that the implications of AI and data can be profound. A sector which generally helps in saving people's lives and helps improving the health of the populace will benefit greatly by technology like AI. AI use cases in healthcare are straight out of science fiction novels when one reads them, but they have already become a part the healthcare ecosystem. With AI becoming so common, one can't help but deep dive into 10 such use cases which are revolutionizing the way caregivers are doling out their services to the patients in the new patient-centric ecosystem. Today, most of the medical records are stored electronically.

Bots are the new black, everyone wants to build one. If you want to do it too, unless you have a Natural Language Processing expert on your team, public APIs are your safest bet. For building an app that has to understand a single command (ex. Siri), current APIs may solve your problem. If you want to build a conversational agent, things get more complicated.

Bots are the new black, everyone wants to build one. If you want to do it too, unless you have a Natural Language Processing expert on your team, public APIs are your safest bet. For building an app that has to understand a single command (ex. Siri), current APIs may solve your problem. If you want to build a conversational agent, things get more complicated.

Today we are releasing the first step of our vision for conversational bots: an early beta of Bot Engine. Since we joined Facebook 15 months ago, the Wit community grew from 6,000 to 21,500 developers. Many of you are already making bots, leveraging Wit to parse messages into structured, actionable data. We are also building Facebook M, your personal assistant in Messenger. We've learned a lot in the process.

The week before David Marcus will take the stage at Facebook's annual F8 developers' conference to announce new tools to help businesses interact with you and me on Messenger, he tries to explain his ambitious idea for the future. Sure, he'll tell the throngs of developers gathering today at San Francisco's scenic former US Army post, Fort Mason, about bots. He'll announce a new bot platform, new ways to find apps, and an artificial intelligence-powered bot engine. At the end of the day, there'll even be free Messenger messenger bags! But all these announcements are just data points that herald something much grander, according to Marcus, who is vice president of messaging at Facebook.