Facebook’s AI assistant is ready to hang out in Messenger

Facebook has announced that a version of M will finally be available to all Messenger users in the US. It’s called “M suggestions,” and it’ll essentially pop up at certain points of your Messenger conversation to recommend related content or features.

In this initial rollout phase, suggestions from M will center around just a few features: stickers, payments, location, making plans, polls and getting a ride. So if you say “Happy birthday,” M might pop up a row of stickers featuring balloons and cake.Not everybody will see the same M suggestions; the key with M is that it’s supposed to be tailored to your particular preference or style of conversation.

M itself would ever roll out globally, the answer appears to be no, as it would be much too resource-intensive. But something like automated M suggestions is simple enough.

[Engadget]

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