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Facebook is Working on a Voice Assistant To Rival Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri, Report Says (cnbc.com)
Facebook is working on a voice assistant to rival the likes of Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri and the Google Assistant, CNBC reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: The tech company has been working on this new initiative since early 2018. The effort is coming out of the company's augmented reality and virtual reality group, a division that works on hardware, including the company's virtual reality Oculus headsets. A team based out of Redmond, Washington, has been spearheading the effort to build the new AI assistant, according to two former Facebook employees who left the company in recent months. The effort is being lead by Ira Snyder, director of AR/VR and Facebook Assistant. That team has been contacting vendors in the smart speaker supply chain, according to two people familiar. It's unclear how exactly Facebook envisions people using the assistant, but it could potentially be used on the company's Portal video chat smart speakers, the Oculus headsets or other future projects.
is a dollar wasted forever.
Finally. I canâ(TM)t believe I had to live this long manually handing over personal details when they could have been capturing them in real time.
...I'm good. Stay over there, Facebook, and I'll stay over here and everything will be fine.
with Eliza than I've ever had with an AI. She really got me, you know, as a person.
Faith: Belief in Truth. Superstition: Belief in Falsehood.
and the Zuck talking back to you. Now that would feel like a real home invasion knowing that everything you just said is being stored forever and resold to th highest bidder 15 times a day.
Facebook working on a device to spy on you 24/7 recording and probably watching everything you do.
Why let a lesser evil into your home?
If it does not like the topic of conversation, will it shut itself down for 30 days just to "teach you a lesson?"
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you know what is best facebook feature? it's account deletion feature. I tried it this week and I need to wait 1 month to see if it works...
If you're still using Facebook, despite all the information and bad news that has already been released about them, then they deserve to be spied on. Seriously people need to be getting off their systems and blocking the embedded Facebook images (often hosted on Facebook's servers) and tracking scripts that are on third party sites. It's nothing more than a data mining tool that is also used by psychopaths to manipulate people.
Given the choices we had in the last election, I can't say I disagree with him.
The Nameless One suitably!
Will it have a Male voice, because Alexa/Siri/Cortana & Googla just reinforce the stereotype of the Female PA.
Though my son's high school and surrounding area is such a small space, I found the term "such a Zuck" to be an interesting one among the teenagers. When I ask him what "Zuck" meant, his reply was it means perv and invading of personal space. I asked my nieces (middle and high schoolers) if they use Facebook and their replies were no, that what moms use to show off and get angry about.
From my view, FB's runway is a short one.
The headline was truncated, it actually reads:
"Facebook is Working on a Voice Assistant To Rival Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri in stealing your privacy in order to sell you stuff or influence your voting".
The summary goes on to say "A Facebook Executive said that Amazon and Apple combined have less reach into peoples lives than we do, and so only we can really f*ck them up with the data they send to us with gadgets like this".
The company that I trust the least next to Google is making technology that already nobody really cares about and serves almost zero practical purpose (no, not Facebook proper :P)? Don't sign me up. I am so not excited I could not wet myself.
Or hearing assistant?
Bush = Nazi Illuminati.
Stop trying to shift blame to the user, you fuck.
"Shit nobody wanted" for $1200, Alex
At this point unless it is a voice assistant which can then talk to all the other voice assistants and/or has an accuracy rate close to 99.9%, I am not interested in learning the nuances of yet another only moderately useful service.
Facebook is going to have a pretty hard time moving forward with its own brand.
Like Windows users, Facebook users seldom use it because they like it, so much as it's just the de facto standard that everyone else uses, and the network effect is tough to overcome. Instagram and Whatsapp were good acquisitions for them because they don't (yet?) have the stigma Facebook does.
The question will be whether Facebook tries to sell their personal assistant using its own brand, or if it will attempt to leverage known data in order to stand out from Alexa and Siri. I see that as being a catch-22 though - if they do, I think many people might think it's too far. If not, there's no advantage over the more popular solutions.
Now you can get your fake news read out loud to you!