Re: Facebook Assistant
Giovanna Qiu
The facebook notification integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more.[Learn more] enables sending notifications via Facebook Messenger, powered by Facebook.
To use this notification integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more.[Learn more] in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file.After changing the configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file, restart Home Assistant to apply the changes. To view the changes, go to Settings > Devices & services > Entities.
With Facebook notify service, you can send your notifications to your Facebook messenger with help of your Facebook page. You have to create a Facebook Page and App for this service. You can control it by calling the notify service as described here. It will send a message on messenger to user specified by target on behalf of your page. See the quick start guide for more information.The phone number used in target should be registered with Facebook messenger. Phone number of the recipient should be in +1(212)555-2368 format. If your app is not approved by Facebook then the recipient should by either admin, developer or tester for your Facebook app. More information about the phone number.
M was a virtual assistant by Facebook, first announced in August 2015, that claimed to automatically complete tasks for users, such as purchase items, arrange gift deliveries, reserve restaurant tables, and arrange travel. It was intended to compete with services such as Siri and Cortana.[1] [2] In practice, over 70% of requests were answered by human operators.
The project was run by Alex Lebrun, of chatbot startup Wit.ai, which was bought by Facebook. The project began in 2015. In April 2017, the MIT Technology Review called M "successful",[3] although it noted that "M is so smart because it cheats."
In April 2017, Facebook enabled "M Suggestions," based on the pure machine portion of M, for users in the United States. M Suggestions scanned chats for keywords and then suggested relevant actions. For example, a user writing "You owe me $20" to a friend might trigger M Suggestions to enable the user's friend to pay the user via Facebook's payment platform.[4][5]
In January 2018, Facebook announced that they would be discontinuing M.[6] The company stated that what they learned from M would be applied to other artificial intelligence projects at Facebook.[7] It came out after M's shutdown that no more than 30% of M's answers to requests had ever been served by the AI system; 70% or more were from the humans backing the system.
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Meta's AI assistant is the company's answer to OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, which took off with enormous popularity when it was released in November 2022. Meta is now touting its own AI assistant as the best free tool available.
Zuckerberg said Meta has integrated real-time knowledge from Google and Bing into the assistant's answers, and made the tool more accessible across its apps by building it into the search boxes on the platforms.
The announcement comes as Meta has been scrambling to push generative AI products out to its billions of users to challenge OpenAI's leading position on the technology, involving an overhaul of computing infrastructure and the consolidation of previously distinct research and product teams.
Meta has been releasing models like Llama 3 for free commercial use by developers as part of its catch-up effort, as the success of a powerful free option could stymie rivals' plans to earn revenue off their proprietary technology. The strategy has also elicited safety concerns from critics who are wary of what unscrupulous developers may use the open-source model to build.
The test will enable Facebook Messenger users chatting with others about food or ordering from a restaurant, for example, to see an interface within that chat that allows them to order through Delivery.com. The intention is that the M assistant will learn about user preferences, and then start providing more relevant suggestions.
Facebook first announced the M program back in 2015 as sort of a hybrid of artificial intelligence and human helpers, but now it's going with a much more fully-formed AI virtual assistant. This test could be as much about helping that assistant learn as it is about testing a new feature with potential market viability.
There's a lot of Messenger-related technology news coming out of the F8 event this week. Aside from this announcement, Facebook also announced a group-oriented Chat Extensions feature that brings more capabilities into chats (Chatbot enabler mode-ai is already integrating with Chat Extensions.) Facebook is working with Delivery.com in a different way, directly embedding it as an option within the M assistant. The idea here is that M may pull up such an option within the context of a chat and encourage messaging users to make quick, easy impulse purchases.
Facebook seems pretty non-committal about what may follow the testing. It doesn't want to publicly appear to be investing too much in integration with third-party apps if it turns out the idea doesn't have wings. It's also being somewhat careful about bringing M into chats. It may not want the virtual assistant to nudge chatters with too many suggestions in the early going, lest it lead to some user annoyance with the feature.
But, assuming this is the first of many tests and many integrations, this is a concept that could really take off for retailers and related companies. Maybe a chat interface to initiate a food delivery makes sense today, but in the future, perhaps it's an interface to Nike.com during a Messenger group chat about Air Jordans. Ultimately, messaging platforms are becoming another channel through which to make a sale, and that makes Facebook a powerful potential partner.
Facebook parent Meta Platforms unveiled a new set of artificial intelligence systems Thursday that are powering what CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls "the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use."
But as Zuckerberg's crew of amped-up Meta AI agents started venturing into social media this week to engage with real people, their bizarre exchanges exposed the ongoing limitations of even the best generative AI technology.
Meta, along with leading AI developers Google and OpenAI, and startups such as Anthropic, Cohere and France's Mistral, have been churning out new AI language models and hoping to persuade customers they've got the smartest, handiest or most efficient chatbots.
To access the chatbot on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Facebook, type "@meta ai" within chats. The Meta AI assistant can also be accessed by tapping on a colorful blue circle icon which lets you know that Meta AI is there.
While Meta is saving the most powerful of its AI models, called Llama 3, for later, on Thursday it publicly released two smaller versions of the same Llama 3 system and said it's now baked into the Meta AI assistant feature in Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
"The vast majority of consumers don't candidly know or care too much about the underlying base model, but the way they will experience it is just as a much more useful, fun and versatile AI assistant," said Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, in an interview.
But in letting down their guard, Meta's AI agents also were spotted this week posing as humans with made-up life experiences. An official Meta AI chatbot inserted itself into a conversation in a private Facebook group for Manhattan moms, claiming that it, too, had a child in the New York City school district. Confronted by group members, it later apologized before the comments disappeared, according to a series of screenshots shown to The Associated Press.
One group member who also happens to study AI said it was clear that the agent didn't know how to differentiate a helpful response from one that would be seen as insensitive, disrespectful or meaningless when generated by AI rather than a human.
"An AI assistant that is not reliably helpful and can be actively harmful puts a lot of the burden on the individuals using it," said Aleksandra Korolova, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University.
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