TickX unveils world-first Messenger chatbot

Developed by 18-year-old hotshot Aayush Chadha, the AI-based Facebook bot pulls events from TickX's search engine and allows users to buy tickets with one click

The bot in action

UK tech start-up TickX – the ticket search engine, or ‘Skyscanner for live events’, which last year turned down £75,000 in funding from BBC’s Dragons’ Den – has taken the wraps off its first Facebook chatbot, which it hopes will revolutionise the ticket-buying process.

Developed by a team led by Aayush Chadha, an 18-year-old student of artificial intelligence at the University of Manchester, the bot plugs directly into TickX’s search engine, allowing users to search for tickets to more than 70,000 events from…

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