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Digital Concierge ‘Operator’ Launches In App Store
Mobile Commerce // November 06, 2015

Online shopping concierge app, Operator, launched today to compete with the “digital butler” services of tech giants like Amazon and Facebook, Financial Times reported yesterday (Nov. 5). The app, which was created by Uber cofounder Garrett Camp and Robin Chan, brings on-demand concierge services, like...

Will Facebook’s M Assistant Kill Yelp?
Mobile Commerce // October 20, 2015

While humans don’t have to worry too much yet about being overtaken by robots, perhaps the same cannot be said specifically about the folks behind Yelp. They might have cause to be concerned about one human/AI hybrid assistant technology in particular, if early reports on...

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Facebook’s M Assistant Says Goodbye

January 09, 2018
Facebook’s text virtual assistant, Facebook M – which relied on humans to train the artificial intelligence system – will lose the human help component of the system. According to a report in The Verge, two and a half years after Facebook M was rolled out, the human-enabled portion – which users can access via a […]

Digital Concierge ‘Operator’ Launches In App Store

November 06, 2015
Online shopping concierge app, Operator, launched today to compete with the “digital butler” services of tech giants like Amazon and Facebook, Financial Times reported yesterday (Nov. 5). The app, which...

Will Facebook’s M Assistant Kill Yelp?

October 20, 2015
While humans don’t have to worry too much yet about being overtaken by robots, perhaps the same cannot be said specifically about the folks behind Yelp. They might have cause...