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A comment on Facebook’s Virtual Assistant M Is Dead. Parent comment

Re:Facebook’s Virtual Assistant M Is Dead by Spooky23 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @07:02PM (#16120288)
Obvious problem is you didn’t order pizza, you ordered Dominos, and your selection is limited to who ever signs a deal with Google or pays them off for top billing.

Correcting that means now you’re arguing with Google/Alexa/Siri, which is an infuriating experience.

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Re:Facebook’s Virtual Assistant M Is Dead by taneq on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @11:59PM (#16121494)
And now we reach a whole new level of "you'll never get [a chatbot] to understand something when [the company that produced the chatbot] getting paid depends on them not understanding it."
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