Brand Boost Podcast: Marketing, Video, Influence, Social Media, Strategy & News

At the recent F8 Developer Summit, Facebook released Bot Engine, to help create smarter bots, specifically for Facebook Messenger. The Bot Engine is developed from Wit.ai, which Facebook acquired last year. Wit.ai is the framework for Facebook Messenger. Facebook's new strategy with Bot Engine is to get developers to embrace the framework and give Facebook Messenger users some specialized bots. “Send receive API is more than enough,” Facebook VP of Messaging Products David Marcus said. “But if you want to build more complex bots, you can use our Bot Engine.” The Bot Engine relies on machine learning. It means that you can feed it sample conversations so that it can handle many different variations of the same questions. I caught up with Dennis Yu, CTO of Blitzmetrics, to get some of his inside insights on what’s going on. Dennis is so far ahead of the curve when it comes to what is going on, I thought it would be too much to handle for some of you, but he insisted the people need to know this stuff. On bots