The machines know you’re pumped to see It and they want to help. Starting today, a new Facebook Messenger chatbot integration with Fandango will detect when the conversation of U.S. users turns toward movies and will offer movie times and the option to buy tickets.
It’s totally convenient! Or completely creepy. According to Variety, here’s how the suggestion bot works:
When a person in a group or one-to-one conversation expresses interest in finding show times, information about movies or buying movie tickets, [Facebook’s “artificial intelligence-based platform”] M will suggest they open the Fandango chat extension.
In the example provided by Fandango, one person says, “It’s mooovie night!! What do you want to see?” Her friend replies, “Let’s go see Thor!” which triggers the M assistant to pull up a prompt below the chat window that says “Buy Tickets for Thor: Ragnarok.”
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