AI that is generative came first. for instance, CoPilot and ChatGPT. We think that most individuals will soon be utilizing generative artificial intelligence (AI). WhatsApp’s Meta AI is now being rolled out by Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta. Although there doesn’t appear to be a pattern in the rollout as of yet, I received it a few days ago. And when I utilized the Meta AI that was embedded into WhatsApp, I realized more and more that this was revolutionary in a manner that Google’s Gemini or ChatGPT were not.
This is due to the fact that WhatsApp serves as Meta AI’s main interface. Considering that this software is used by over a billion people worldwide, it essentially provides all of these users with instantaneous access to generative AI. Free and hassle-free for the foreseeable future. One small, problematic detail exists, but more on that later.
Here is a little explanation of what this Meta AI is before I go any further: Thanks to its partnership with Bing for real-time information and photos, users of the WhatsApp app may now utilize this Gen AI technology to obtain real-time information, ask jokes, schedule trips, and even create images. It’s interesting to note that WhatsApp users may utilize Meta AI in between group or personal chats by just mentioning @MetaAI throughout the discussion and sharing the outcomes with contacts. Meta AI is not only accessible as a dedicated chatbot.
Even so, it’s questionable. My experience over the past few days has been that sometimes it worked and other times it didn’t.
How can I acquire WhatsApp Meta AI?
Meta AI is now being slowly rolled out. This indicates that it is reaching consumers, even those in India, albeit slowly. I am one of the many individuals who have already gotten the latest update. Why? I’m not entirely sure. That is, we have no idea when businesses like Google and Meta, which do A/B testing, will start rolling out features to certain customers and not others. However, I made a joke with my coworkers that I could have gotten early access because I send about a thousand SMS per day.
Despite the bad jokes, this Sunday I did receive the Meta AI. Following a routine upgrade from WhatsApp, it materialized on its own. However, I only have one phone, an iPhone. My WhatsApp does not yet include Meta AI on Android.
In the app, Meta AI is represented as a blue ring symbol to the right of the camera icon. By tapping on it, I may utilize the prompt to create text or graphics within the discussions or launch the specialized AI chatbot.
So, the crucial queries are: Is it any good? I used Meta AI in my WhatsApp for almost a day to examine how the firm had entered the AI competition in order to figure it out. And to begin with, I think the outcomes are just outstanding. Allow me to explain why.
Simple WhatsApp integration
To start with, I think it’s great that Meta has integrated the Meta AI inside WhatsApp. For AI, we may therefore use WhatsApp just opening it rather to installing a new app or visiting a website. And it is quite practical. In a private or group conversation, you may ask AI questions or utilize the chatbot.
It is also handy to use AI within chat, even though the chatbot is the simplest way to initiate a conversation with it. For example, I wanted to know the weather in Rishikesh while I was talking to my buddy about going there. Currently, I queried the @Meta AI in the chat about the “temperature in Rishikesh” and it provided all the relevant information within the chat, keeping the conversation flowing, rather than going back to Google and searching for related information and then sharing it on WhatsApp. Since Meta AI gets its real-time information and image access from Microsoft Bing, the information was likewise current.
Of course, you can also produce photos
Making graphics is, in my opinion, the most common use case at the moment and is also physically tangible. Images may be produced by Meta AI. And how! Considering that it is creating images with Bing-powered AI, the Meta AI is rather good at doing so. This is what I noticed:
- The photographs it produces are of excellent quality. It is unquestionably superior to Google Gemini, in my opinion. It is comparable to Dall-E and Microsoft CoPilot. It is, of course, one or two steps below MidJourney. Nevertheless, it works flawlessly and produces visually appealing, photo-realistic photos.
- Boundaries and restrictions exist. Images of humans, well-known figures, or potentially religious imagery will not be produced by meta AI.
- Meta AI generates pictures far faster, at least when compared to Google Gemini and Microsoft CoPilot.
- The photos are a decent size, measuring 1280 by 1280 pixels. You can download the pictures.
- It is AI, of course. Therefore, there will inevitably be bad pictures. For instance, the dog’s head appears overly computerized in this picture, yet the other half of the image is natural.
- An picture cannot be edited once it has been made. You may instruct it to alter the picture if you’d like. However, there’s no guarantee that the new image will resemble the one you created before. That is to say, you cannot directly pick a portion of the image and instruct Meta AI to alter it alone, unlike with CoPilot or Adobe FireFly.
- A watermark of the meta AI logo appears on images.
However, what is the drawback of Meta AI?
There must be something, of course. No free lunches, after all, my dear reader. The problem is that, unlike regular WhatsApp conversations, none of the conversations marked with Meta are end-to-end encrypted, despite the fact that I truly like how simple it was to find the answers inside the chats. Thus, Meta will log everything you ask and utilize it to enhance its artificial intelligence. This even holds true if you call upon Meta AI to join a private conversation with someone. Meta will be able to access the messages that you have marked with Meta AI, but not the rest of the discussion.
So here’s another query: Does WhatsApp require generative AI? My experience with Meta AI leads me to believe that the answer is unquestionably yes. AI support during instant chat may be very beneficial in a variety of ways. Even if meta AI is still in its infancy, with further development, we may already see it assisting with textual or visual communications. As technology develops, I think it may have a big influence on how we communicate and exchange knowledge, and I think such changes would be positive.
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