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Re:Facebook’s Virtual Assistant M Is Dead by nitwit005 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @04:27PM (#16119242)
I'm sure this is technically possible, but it may never be practical. Much like human operators, you're going to want to drive the user down a certain path, because order is often extremely important.

What if Dominoes doesn't have green peppers? What if they don't like the pizza brand? What if they're asking because they have a coupon? You may end up repeating sections of the conversation multiple times, and in the end the user will just end up so confused they give up.

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Re:Facebook’s Virtual Assistant M Is Dead by bharath28 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @04:36PM (#16119320)
More importantly, how do you know Dominoes (or someone else with an incentive) is not driving you down a certain path? This happens today already with Ads, Fb feed, instagram etc... but there is something distinctly suspicious about taking away specific control points in the decision making process.
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Re:Facebook’s Virtual Assistant M Is Dead by IanCal on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:57PM (#16119935)
What would happen if you were speaking to a real person? Imagine the most useful real person on the other end. That's the goal of these things.
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