The world’s largest social networking platform, Facebook is the latest member that joins the digital personal assistant space. A space which sets Facebook in competition with the currently giant leaders like Apple, Google and Microsoft. Facebook’s new AI-based assistant “M” is still on its startup mode and is released in Beta to users in San Francisco, attached within Messenger application it uses text message commands unlike its competitors which also use voice commands. The commands form is smartly built-in text because the 700 million people that have installed the Facebook Messenger app use it to communicate with people by tapping out messages.
There were a plenty of rumors talking about Facebook’s plans to build an assistant, but the official announcement was made by Facebook Messenger lead David Marcus via a post on his Facebook account. Marcus is the PayPal president that joined team of Facebook last year, and since he joined the Messenger team every product or standalone site undertaken under his lead received a massive popularity like never before.
As Marcus explains, the M assistant is an AI-powered service trained and supervised by people, its main purpose is to complete tasks in your behalf. As to give us a clue about what tasks M will be capable to execute, Marcus listed some of the features which consist in, purchasing items, deliver gifts to your friends, book restaurants, set up appointments and travels, and many more. Based in this short description, the virtual assistant M will not use search engines only to provide to you information in a simplified way but it will complete tasks which you used to spend time in doing them. Thus, you will have more time to dedicate to your family or your other important things.
The negative part of this project is that it will not be rolled out very soon. It is yet to early to expect the M featured in your Messenger app, and that happens because must teach to its AI how to automate handling requests. And this is not an easy task, Facebook will work hard as in every former project and will surely bring a worthy virtual assistant to every person that uses its Messenger app, currently the number reaches 700 million monthly active users, but at the time when M officially debuts this number will be expanded.
The above picture illustrates the facts which the M assistant will be capable to do in your behalf. As a sample, the user texts the assistant that Is planning to go to Chicago next week, and would want to know a place where are made great burgers. The M on its own finds the popular Command Burger and asks the user if is interested to make a reservation. The answer is yes, and reservation is made. By this way, the person didn’t had to search in search engines for this inquiry and saved a lot of time that’ would be used in entering payment details to make the reservation.
Facebook’s virtual assistant “M” will be rolled within some time, until the official announcement is made stay tuned with Daily Waffle for any new information toward it or for a formal review.
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