When OpenAI launched the 1-800-ChatGPT (1-800-242-8478) quantity in mid-December, saying assist for voice calls from any sort of telephone, I known as it a gimmicky characteristic meant to assist promote ChatGPT past conventional promoting channels. Think about speaking to the AI from a rotary telephone; how loopy is that?
The WhatsApp assist that comes with that quantity just isn’t a gimmick, nevertheless. I stated that whereas I wouldn’t use ChatGPT over WhatsApp, the performance is likely to be an amazing assault on Meta. Immediately, ChatGPT is current inside a safe chat app that comes preloaded with Meta AI.
OpenAI’s stunning dedication to enhancing the WhatsApp expertise additional tells me that is greater than a advertising and marketing trick. WhatsApp chats with ChatGPT have simply gotten higher, as they now assist pictures and voice messages. I now suppose speaking to ChatGPT by way of WhatsApp is likely to be an effective way to begin interacting with AI should you’re not already.
Just a few days in the past, I defined why you need to get began with AI chatbots like ChatGPT relatively than being afraid or lazy about it. Prefer it or not, AI is the longer term, and also you’ll wish to be proficient in speaking to it.
There’s no higher place to begin, than a free ChatGPT account on the internet or by way of the iPhone or Android app. Or is it? Effectively, I now suppose WhatsApp may very well be an amazing different to the ChatGPT app or the online interface for newcomers.
Give it some thought: most individuals use chat apps to speak to household, mates, and colleagues on daily basis. WhatsApp is the world’s hottest chat app. It’s end-to-end encrypted, too, which is the primary cause I exploit it.
Speaking to AI like ChatGPT is rather like speaking to a human. Doing it within the WhatsApp UI relatively than OpenAI’s app is likely to be a simple strategy to get you began. You already know the way WhatsApp works, so that you solely must sort inquiries to the AI.
Because of this week’s replace, you possibly can depart voice messages to ChatGPT by way of WhatsApp and add pictures together with your questions. All it’s important to do is save the 1-800-242-8478 quantity in your contacts app to get began.
The extra comfy you turn out to be with ChatGPT, the better it will likely be to change to the ChatGPT cell app and apply it to the online in your PC (or by way of a desktop app).
From the seems of it, OpenAI is not going to cease enhancing the WhatsApp expertise both. Sooner or later, you’ll be capable to hyperlink your ChatGPT account to the WhatsApp account “for extra utilization.”
That is an fascinating proposition, and I can already consider one cause to do it: If the ChatGPT apps are down, I would nonetheless use the AI by way of WhatsApp, offered that assist for WhatsApp chat stays up whereas devoted apps malfunction.
Nevertheless, I’m a longtime ChatGPT consumer, and I’d relatively persist with the official apps relatively than revert to WhatsApp for chats.
