Just a few minutes ago, I was playing around with Facebook Messenger and "M," Messenger's new, still-in-test-phase virtual assistant popped up.

After reading through lengthy terms and conditions, I typed "hello." And then this happened:

OK, time for M to make first contact.

Facebook's VP of messaging products, David Marcus, described M this way in a recent post: "M is a personal digital assistant inside of Messenger that completes tasks and finds information on your behalf."

I was ready. And this is what M said: