Facebook on Thursday said that its messaging app, Messenger, will soon start showing users suggestions from a virtual assistant to Android and iOS users in the US.
The artificial intelligence-powered assistant, called M, will suggest things it deems might be helpful to users based on the conversations they are having.
This can include sending stickers, sharing your location with a friend to meet up, hailing a ride or sending money to friends.
The more someone uses M, the “smarter” it gets – and if the suggestions are routinely ignored, it will stop providing them.
While having a virtual assistant monitor your private messages can sound creepy, Facebook stresses that there is no advertising component to the move.
Facebook unveiled M in 2015, but until now it’s only been testing out the suggestions with a small percentage of Messenger users.