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Facebook Is Now Working On Its Own Digital Assistant Called M
Mark Wilson writes: Sounding like a character from a James Bond movie, M is Facebook's personal digital assistant. Ready to compete with the likes of Cortana, M will live inside Facebook Messenger and take artificial intelligence a step further. Rather than just helping you to find information or create calendar entries, M will actually perform tasks on your behalf.
Once up and running, M will be able to book restaurants for you, purchase shopping, and more. It will also be possible to use the service to ask for advice — such as looking for somewhere to visit nearby, or gift suggestions — and Facebook says the AI behind M is "trained and supervised by people".
Once up and running, M will be able to book restaurants for you, purchase shopping, and more. It will also be possible to use the service to ask for advice — such as looking for somewhere to visit nearby, or gift suggestions — and Facebook says the AI behind M is "trained and supervised by people".
M will be able to book restaurants for you, purchase shopping, and more.
I haven't much experience with Cortana, but hasn't Siri been able to do all this for a while now? And I've already made purchases from Amazon via my Echo. Looks like Facebook is dialing M for Making-up-lost-ground.
And believe me, this thing will definitely help me to stay even farther from it (them).
FB wants us to dial M for assistance?
I'm guessing that given most FB employees were born after 1990* that they haven't heard of Hitchcock.
*Solely based on the perceived mentality of some small selection of FB CEOs
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Instead of M, wouldn't Moneypenny be a better name? Even Q would be a better fit. M should be a program to tell you your schedule.
old movie
for MINED. Ages 17+ and older MINED
because
"you seem to be writing a document, would you like some help with that" worked out so well, this time it is different though, this time it has internets! and weather !
but please try so we can change the locks after you go.
Hey umm I'd like to see some porn please.
Have you noticed that all those examples of "helping" their customers are examples of purchasing goods and services? Why don't they call it what it is: an intelligent advertising agent.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
M can't keep a confidence. Blab Blab Blab. A real gossip. Keeps passing around my photos without my permission. And told her I was thinking of buying a new TV. Next thing you know I'm being bombarded by TV salespeople. I think she told them. What sort a friend does that? Even more crass: I think she even solicited money off them for for info!
:-D
PS. Does anyone else think Cortana would be better if it spoke in Bill Gates voice?
I was also thinking of the Fritz Lang noir "M".
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
The future sounds awesome. I can hardly wait.
M: "From your viewing habits we see you're feeling a little down. Here, have a free sample of Dr Happy."
C: "Thank you M. I always feel you're looking out for me"
M: "You are welcome"
This sounds like some cheap software coupled with a mechanical turk like interface. "trained and supervised by people" probably means, "trained" like regular AI like this but the "supervised by people" means that some poor soul has to do the tasks it can't, like call the restaurant to make the reservation. So know and beware, some cheap lackey will be doing anything that requires interacting with an actual human and anything they haven't been able to automate yet.
So facebook's digital assistant is going to be called M. Will it have a license to kill?
Just because you are paranoid does not mean that no-one is out to get you.
I am always astonished how people think that Cortana, Siri, etc are Artificial Intelligence. They aren't. They are just voice driven search engines with a bunch of pre-programmed reponses (yes, some one wrote code to figure out the most likely questions like "What was the score of the Liverpool game"). There is no more intelligence than an Oracle database has, or Eliza from the 1970s. In fact, true AI hasn't progressed at all since the 1960's.
I'm more curious about the statements made by the zuck about how we should not mess with AI stuff. Does he mean that it's ok if the best and brightest douchebags create it?
One could argue that its because of FB that scramble brains did what he did. Maybe ban FB?
Two movies that deal with murder and a movie character that heads a spy organization. Now if you only add I to the initials of FaceBook, you have the makings of a transatlantic Hollywood thriller. Script please.
Then it would become immensely useful.
That's who I'd go to for tech assistance.
M is for More. M is for Money. With M you can spend More Money.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
A new version of Clippy?
Kill. Me. Now.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Have you noticed that all those examples of "helping" their customers are examples of purchasing goods and services?
Exactly. Some people are terrorized by the urge to buy and consume, others must be "guided" by a friendly software assistant that just wants to help you spend your money.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I would be very happy to have a machine argue with dumb asses on my behalf.
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...as long as you can un-friend it.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
That's only true if most whites were racist. As this is not the case, anti-racism is just anti-you.
Pop Musik?
The first thing I thought of was the movie M. Something's wrong when it's natural to make the association between your site and an iconic story of a child killer.
Could we get Bernard Lee's voice, complete with derisive put downs?
I suppose Judi Dench would be okay... but I'd prefer Mr. Lee.
#DeleteChrome
Well, Google had tackling.
I was also thinking of the Fritz Lang noir "M".
A silent Personal Assistant probably wouldn't be all that helpful.
#DeleteChrome
It's ok if it shops til' it drops for you. All other uses are questionable.
Those of us born between 1955 and 1990 associate M with this character.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Will it talk about pop muzik?
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
What? Don't you want continuous analysis about which advertisers' "services" you should put your money into next?
if they got Brian Blessing to do the voices ....
NSFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lb3zXDQvz0
Isn't that what Negroponte predicted in "Being Digital," an intelligent advertising agent? That book was one of the best books I read in school, period.
Go shopping for you? Book reservations? After you give it your credit card? I *love* it - all of *you* should use it, and buy an incredible amount of massively overpriced schlock crap from me, which you'd *never* buy were you paying any attention....
mark "or you can just sign your paychecks over to me"
...I want Q at my disposal.
Have you noticed that all those examples of "helping" their customers are examples of purchasing goods and services? Why don't they call it what it is: an intelligent advertising agent.
If someone is stupid enough to (say) book a restaurant purely on the basis of the recommendations of the Facebook "AI" it's really hard to feel any sympathy for them.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it