Although it’s a bot, Foursquare said that Marsbot isn’t a chatbot like what you’d see with Poncho, 1-800 Flowers, and others that you access within Facebook Messenger. It’s less conversational and more predictive. The company said that it uses your location and travel patterns to provide suggestions on where you can go next.
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Foursquare product manager Marissa Chacko cautioned that it’s a work in progress, and not everyone will have immediate access. “While we are iterating, fixing bugs and improving the experience, we’ll be slowly letting people in from the waitlist. It’ll take time for Marsbot to learn about you and for us to refine how it all works. So please be patient. No one said inventing the future would be easy,” she wrote in a blog post.
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