{"id":13136,"date":"2023-08-02T11:33:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=13136"},"modified":"2023-08-02T11:33:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:33:34","slug":"meta-plans-ai-powered-chatbots-to-boost-social-media-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/meta-plans-ai-powered-chatbots-to-boost-social-media-numbers\/13136\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Plans AI-Powered Chatbots to Boost Social Media Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Ars Technica, Aug 1, 2023.\u00a0\u00a0 Amid competition from TikTok, Meta looks to the next frontier of user engagement. Meta is reportedly developing a range of AI-powered chatbots with different personalities, a move aimed at increasing user engagement on social platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, according to the\u00a0Financial Times\u00a0and\u00a0The Verge. The chatbots, called &#8220;personas&#8221; by Meta staff, will mimic human-like conversations and might take on various character forms, such as Abraham Lincoln or a surfer-like travel adviser. The move to introduce chatbots to Meta platforms comes amid growing competition from social media platforms like TikTok <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/meta-plans-ai-powered-chatbots-to-boost-social-media-numbers\/13136\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Ars Technica, Aug 1, 2023.\u00a0\u00a0 Amid competition from TikTok, Meta looks to the next frontier of user engagement. Meta is reportedly developing a range of AI-powered chatbots with different personalities, a move aimed at increasing user engagement on social platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, according to the\u00a0Financial Times\u00a0and\u00a0The Verge. The chatbots, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[879,368,1291,243,8],"class_list":["post-13136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-neural-networks","tag-machine-learning","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13136"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13142,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13136\/revisions\/13142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}