Facebook is working on Moneypenny - Siri competitor with live assistants

After the release of the voice assistant Apple, many companies began to create similar solutions for their platforms. The most well-known at the moment are google Now, Cortana and S Voice of Samsung. The quality of their work is very different, but one thing they are absolutely identical - in query processing. All computers do. Facebook wants to launch a similar assistant named Moneypenny, but with the people instead of the server.

Specific details about the service Facebook is not disclosed, but sources reportedWhat matters is the hybrid processing technology and combine the power of data centers and human resources.

To inquiries about the weather, stock prices and other difficult situations will respond computers copes with such problems. But the more difficult questions will go live people who will provide a much more meaningful answers.

Perhaps the work will be the new assistant app facebook Messenger. Besides weather information and analysis in a football match, Moneypenny will be able to give advice about shopping. It is this and will deal with special people. Specify the desired characteristics of the desired type of goods, the user receives one or more product variants from the nearest shops. In fact, this feature Facebook wants to replace conventional consultants in retail sales points.

On the other abilities and date Moneypenny output is not reported.