Facebook M – The Anti-Turing Test

Why is this even a question? According to Facebook itself, it's mostly human-driven.

http://recode.net/2015/11/03/facebooks-virtual-assistant-m-i...

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This is always impressive to me, I didn't realize a thing until "tlaknig"! Although I suppose you could specifically train an AI to recogize this.

> "The opinion is split as to whether or not it’s a real AI, and there seems to be no way of proving its nature on way or the other."

Clearly, the author didn't even do the most basic fact checking. Since, Facebook clearly told everyone that M was going to be AI that was assisted by humans.

It's literally in the announcement post: https://www.facebook.com/Davemarcus/posts/10156070660595195

> "It's powered by artificial intelligence that's trained and supervised by people."

This is a new angle on the app-outsourcing-to-low-paid-contractors "technology": it's so dehumanising that you have to pretend to be a computer while you work!

It's also strikingly similar to the original "mechanical turk".