Facebook currently with more than 900 million active users, is experiencing a period of constant changes, and this is how in F8; the company's annual developer conference in San Francisco; Mark Zuckerberg provided details about the upcoming changes to the social network.
Messenger Platform and Artificial Intelligence
Messenger Platform is a communication platform that will revolutionize the world of applications and could replace many others already on the market with its upcoming updates, according to its creator, Mark Zuckerberg.
The messaging app will be managed by "bots", that's right gentlemen, nothing less than artificial intelligence. So you can receive all kinds of information, from subscriptions or news to content updates.
"Today we launch Messenger Platform in its beta version with 'bots' and our API to send and receive messages," announced David Marcus, the director of Facebook Messenger
Facebook will change the way the user consumes content. For example, instead of seeing updates on the social network's wall, users will receive them through messages that they can open or reject instantly. This will allow the app to adjust its algorithm and show people content they are interested in based on their history. The bots are behind this project carried out with Artificial Intelligence. The objective is to provide the user with good service.
Facebook Live
Mark Zuckerberg also developed the new format that allows anyone to broadcast live on their Facebook account, using their smartphone.
This design was launched at the end of January to compete with Twitter's Periscope and is now available in 60 countries.
The Facebook drone and free internet
The aircraft is powered by solar energy and will bring internet to the areas furthest from its servers, which in turn are the most in need.
"If you had told me ten years ago that Facebook was going to build a huge airplane, I would have told you that you were crazy. But here we are now," Zuckerberg said. The enormous drone of the social network is now a reality and was baptized "Aquila".
The gigantic drone will remain in the stratosphere for months transmitting broadband internet to rural and hard-to-reach areas with the intention of "connecting everyone in the world."
voice recognition
As with Siri on Apple or Google Now on Google, Facebook turned to its own virtual assistant called “Facebook M.”
It will be integrated into Messenger, so the messaging application will have a virtual, robotic user, who will help resolve different people's questions.
This virtual assistant will answer users' questions within the app, which will help Facebook attract more companies to its messaging service. This will help the social network to develop new ways of communicating between companies and customers.
New feature for the blind
The social network presented a new intelligent system that allows blind people to identify the photos that are published on its platform.
The function generates a description of the photo in question using recognition technology.
Thus, a person using screen readers on iOS devices will hear a list of items that describe the image on Facebook. Currently, people using screen readers could hear only the name of the person sharing the image.
Updated on: 28/04/2016 00:00:00
Source of Information: Big Bang News
