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The Guardian - UK
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Meet our experimental Guardian Sous-Chef Facebook messenger bot

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This little bot might help you whip up something nice tonight Photograph: Guardian

As part of our Hack Day today, we’d like to introduce you to the Guardian Sous-Chef Facebook messenger bot.

It is our first foray into chat messaging apps, and we are interested in what you make of it.

You can find Guardian Sous-Chef on Facebook, and send it a message.

When you do, the chef should introduce itself, and then give you the opportunity to find recipes to cook from the Guardian and Observer’s website.

Our experiemental Guardian Sous-Chef chatbot introduces itself
Our experiemental Guardian Sous-Chef chatbot introduces itself

We’ve done some testing of it interacting with humans in controlled conditions, and now we are going to make it available for a limited time so that we can assess how people use it, and how well it copes once it encounters real people.

Be gentle with it...

Sous Chef asks what you would like to cook up
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