Hands-on with Facebook M: the virtual assistant with a (real) human touch

Hands-on with Facebook M: the virtual assistant with a (real) human touch:

nerdology:

I love this. This is the future of personal assistants.

The question for me is whether this can be done without data mining (preserving privacy). Because, let’s not kid ourselves, Facebook is using this service to learn more about you so they can sell more relevant ads. That’s their core business; everything is always going to tie back to that.

via Tumblr http://bit.ly/1Ptq6HJ