Marketing
January 10, 2018
Facebook's virtual assistant M is being discontinued later this month. Image credit: Facebook
By Danny Parisi
After only a few months, Facebook is discontinuing M, its Messenger-based chatbot and virtual assistant tool, signaling trouble for the future prospects of artificial intelligence on the platform.
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