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September 23, 2019

Facebook Has Acquired a Chatbot Startup Servicefriend

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As Facebook arranges to roll out its innovative cryptocurrency Libra by 2020, it is placing the pieces in position to aid it to run. In one of its novel developments, the organization got hold of a startup that creates chatbots- chats clients for texting apps based on AI (Artificial Intelligence), named Servicefriend, to assist customer service teams, TechCrunch has confirmed in a report.

The information was initially in Israel, where the company Servicefriend is based, once one of its shareholders, Roberto Singler, notified local publication The Marker regarding the contract. We contacted Ido Arad, one of the organization’s co-founders, who passed on our queries to a group at Facebook. Facebook then accepted the acquirement with an Apple-like distracted statement:

“We acquire smaller tech companies from time to time. We don’t always discuss our plans,” a Facebook representative said.

A lot of people, counting Arad, Shahar Ben Ami his co-founder, and at least one additional indicate that they at the moment work at Facebook in the Calibra digital wallet cluster on their profiles on LinkedIn. Their actions at the social network begun this month, indicating this acquisition concluded in the latest weeks. (Numerous others suggest that they are at Servicefriend, showing they too might have probably made a move as well.)

Though Facebook isn’t stating what they are going to be working on, the most apparent region will be in developing a bot — or more probably, a network of chatbots — for the users’ service coating for the Calibra digital wallet, which Facebook is building.

Facebook plans to develop different financial services for users to folks to make use of Calibra to reimburse out and get Libra — for instance, to drive money to contacts, top-up their phones, pay bills, buy things and more.

It sustains to be viewed just how many users will believe Facebook as a supplier of all these. As a result, where having “human” & comfortable customer service familiarity will be essential.

Calibra notes on its welcome page, “We are here for you.” Here, it promises 24*7 support in Messenger and WhatsApp for its users.

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Servicefriend has worked on the platform of Facebook in the past: mainly it developed “hybrid” bots for Messenger for organizations to utilize to balance teams of humans, to improved scale their services on texting stages. In one Messenger bot, which Servicefriend developed for Globe Telecom in the Philippines, it found that the hybrid chatbot was capable of bringing the “agent hours” down to below 20 hours for every 1,000 customer communications.

Bots have been a comparatively tricky region for Facebook. The corporation released a personal helper called M in 2015, and then bots, which allows users to talk to organizations in 2016 on Messenger, with relatively a fanfare, though the actuality, was that not anything worked as well as assured, and in a few cases worked considerably weaker than whatsoever services they intended to restore.

While Artificial Intelligence-based assistants like Alexa have turn out to be identical with how a system can hold on a discussion and offer data to humans, the agreement around bots nowadays is that the most practical method onward is to develop services that balance, rather than wholly replace, teams.

For Facebook, getting its user service on Calibra correct can assist it develop and enlarge its reliability.

Note: Another region where Servicefriend has developed services is in with the help of customer service as an advertising channel.

Getting it incorrect could indicate problems not just with users, but with partners and perhaps regulators.

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