Facebook testing its own version of Virtual Assistant ‘M’ in
its messenger platform. These days there is a huge penetration of Virtual Assistants
in the market with the launch of Apple’s
Siri , Microsoft’s Cortana and Hike’s Natasha
in India . This is being followed by Facebook’s virtual assistant named as M
integrated with its own messenger platform.
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The only difference between the other virtual assistant’s
and M is that it does not rely entirely on Artificial intelligence to answer
the queries of the users and perform tasks on their behalf. It has a so-called
group of M-trainers behind the bots to combine the power of human as well as
artificial intelligence. There are some queries or tasks which are not possible
totally through machines and may require some human intervention, M is trying
to address that issue and also capitalize on it.
This can be used simply with the users simply typing in
their queries in the form of text and receiving the answer back in text format.
It would also be able to perform tasks on behalf of the users such as making
bookings, online shopping etc. The unique thing here is although virtual
assistants who have been implemented by so many renowned companies before, its
implementation on the world’s largest social networking platform is surely
going to change the landscape in which this assistant’s would be used if
implemented successfully.
One thing is for sure, by the influx of these products and
services at such an astonishing rate by almost all of the tech-giants ensures
that we get the best out of them and also they would be constantly
upgrading/improving in their niche’s .
Lastly the good news is that now everyone would be able to
afford an assistant.