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Re: M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger

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Post by nashequilibrium »

knn wrote: post #24
pen2l wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first thing I thought after seeing that example is FB is the new Yelp. Restaurants will have to pay FB for visibility and recognition... Same thing as Yelp, just a lot scarier.

Have mixed feelings about this like I'm sure many do. Greater convenience, but less and less privacy.. Our Fb/goog/nsa overlords know what we eat, where we shit, all of our conversations and relationships. What a scary world we live in.

That is because you remember the world of privacy, the generation that has grown up with facebook do not.

Re: M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

andybak wrote: post #43

The article title has the word 'Facebook' in whereas the post just mentioned 'Messenger'. Is 'Messenger' clear enough? I'm old enough to think that refers to Microsoft Messenger!

Annoyingly Google have called their newest SMS thing Messenger too so it's an ambiguous term even on my phone.

Re: M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger

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Post by viksit »

mrwilliamchang wrote: post #38
viksit wrote: post #36

Haha, it looks eerily similar to Myra, the cross platform assistant I launched last week [1]. Including the name. Interesting times. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10060074 .

Myra looks similar Magic to which was launched earlier this year. Also has a name beginning with m. http://www.wired.com/2015/03/stump-magic/

True. Although, the name was chosen way earlier than Magic's launch actually! So it's a coincidence.

But it's all AI - no human assists :)

Re: M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger

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Post by ErikAugust »

mbesto wrote: post #14

The first thing I see when someone asks "find me a good burger place in Chicago" is "how can companies game this through official ($) or artificial (spam) means?"

I think the best way to go around this is use Tinder to get matches with locals, then ask them through chat.

Re: M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

viksit wrote: post #53
mrwilliamchang wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Myra looks similar Magic to which was launched earlier this year. Also has a name beginning with m. http://www.wired.com/2015/03/stump-magic/

True. Although, the name was chosen way earlier than Magic's launch actually! So it's a coincidence. But it's all AI - no human assists :)

I think I down voted this by mistake - sorry! Myra looks really cool :)

Re: M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger

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Post by mikeash »

mbesto wrote: post #14

The first thing I see when someone asks "find me a good burger place in Chicago" is "how can companies game this through official ($) or artificial (spam) means?"

Once this service is released to the public, you should definitely ask it that second question and see how it responds.

Re: M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger

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Post by cylon13 »

roymurdock wrote: post #35

“You have lots of AIs—like Siri, Google Now, or Cortana—whose scope is quite limited. Because AI is limited, you have to define a limited scope,” Lebrun says. “We wanted to start with something more ambitious, to really give people what they’re asking for.” This meant the team would need more than AI...Even after bringing neural nets into the mix, he says, the company will continue to use human trainers for years on…

Relevant skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4WrPkKc2Wg
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