Friday, August 28, 2015

Facebook is testing a virtual assistant for its Messenger messaging – Le Parisien

August 27, 2015, 10:04 | Updated: August 27, 2015, 10:04

(AFP ) – Facebook has begun testing on Wednesday a built-in virtual assistant on mobile messaging application Messenger, likely to compete with Apple’s Siri or Cortana at Microsoft.

“Today we begin to test a new service baptized M. M is a personal digital assistant inside Messenger, which realizes of tasks and finds information for you”, writes David Marcus, supports messaging services of Facebook, in a message posted Wednesday on his account on the social network.

He said that M works with an artificial intelligence system “is driven and supervised by persons “real, and says that unlike other services already on the market, it will push the task to the end, ie” purchase items, delivered gifts to relatives, book restaurants, make arrangements for travel, make appointments, and much more. “

Most US technology giants have launched in recent years virtual assistants. Apple was a pioneer with Siri, which now rivals Google Now and the newest Microsoft Cortana. Most of these assistants meet the voice commands

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