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04-18-2016, 11:21 PM
Facebook Messenger chief: It will be years before everyone has M
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If you were hoping Facebook would use last week's F8 conference to release its AI assistant M to the mainstream, you're going to have to wait a lot longer.
In an interview (http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/18/11422278/facebook-messenger-bots-david-marcus-interview) with The Verge, Facebook's Messenger chief David Marcus confirmed what many insiders have suspected for awhile: M won't be broadly available for "years."
SEE ALSO: Facebook is testing a massive change to your news feed (http://mashable.com/2016/04/15/facebook-news-feed-sections/)
Responding to a question about how to make M more useful, Marcus ack**wledged the company still has a long way to go before it's ready for all Facebook users.*
Facebook began testing (http://mashable.com/2015/08/26/facebook-m-assistant/)*M in August; the service has been limited to a small group of early testers since then. Similar to products from startups like Magic (https://getmagic**w.com/) and Operator (https://operator.com/), M is able to complete tasks like booking travel, ordering food and scheduling appointments.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/18/facebook-m-**t-ready-for-years/)
More about Facebook Messenger (http://mashable.com/category/facebook-messenger/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Apps And Software (http://mashable.com/category/apps-and-software/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/PZKs_8lO2dU
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If you were hoping Facebook would use last week's F8 conference to release its AI assistant M to the mainstream, you're going to have to wait a lot longer.
In an interview (http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/18/11422278/facebook-messenger-bots-david-marcus-interview) with The Verge, Facebook's Messenger chief David Marcus confirmed what many insiders have suspected for awhile: M won't be broadly available for "years."
SEE ALSO: Facebook is testing a massive change to your news feed (http://mashable.com/2016/04/15/facebook-news-feed-sections/)
Responding to a question about how to make M more useful, Marcus ack**wledged the company still has a long way to go before it's ready for all Facebook users.*
Facebook began testing (http://mashable.com/2015/08/26/facebook-m-assistant/)*M in August; the service has been limited to a small group of early testers since then. Similar to products from startups like Magic (https://getmagic**w.com/) and Operator (https://operator.com/), M is able to complete tasks like booking travel, ordering food and scheduling appointments.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/18/facebook-m-**t-ready-for-years/)
More about Facebook Messenger (http://mashable.com/category/facebook-messenger/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Apps And Software (http://mashable.com/category/apps-and-software/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/PZKs_8lO2dU