Thursday, August 27, 2015

Faced with Cortana, Siri and Google Now, Facebook will launch “M” – The World

Screenshots of Facebook M, the personal assistant that tests the social network.

“Hello, I am M” . A few hundred Californians Facebook users, since Thursday, access to “M”, a personal assistant designed by the social network. Integrated with Facebook Messenger, the application of real-time discussions, it operates on the basis of questions and answers.

The user can ask a question by e-mail as it would with any user human – the program will ask him further questions and made her suggestions. The examples given by Facebook applications are rather conventional: Nearby find a gift idea for someone, make a reservation in a restaurant …

Special service compared to competitors “M” will use algorithms, but human interlocutors also help service to answer questions. For now, the service will not piochera in the data of the “social graph”, the giant Facebook database that links people, interests, and activities on the social network. “ But that may change in the future, with the agreement of users ,” explained one of the project managers at Wired magazine.

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