Artificial intelligence continues to evolve and affect many parts of our lives. Recently Facebook announced M, an artificial-intelligence powered assistant programmed to do your bidding. This interesting information was found on CNN Money in their article, “Facebook made its own Siri: Meet M.”
This new feature is part of Facebook’s stand-alone Messenger app and is only available to a few hundred test users in the Bay Area.
How is this different from say, Siri? Well, it doesn’t have a voice. You communicate with M via text. At first this feels like the opposite of advancement but if you are like many users of iPhone’s Siri, it is fun to communicate with her in a private setting but in the workplace or public setting, it is not appropriate or sometimes even possible.
M is considered an assistant in the truest definition of the word. It doesn’t know you and you still have to direct it.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.
