Meta’s including one other AI ingredient to WhatsApp, this time by way of a brand new picture creation software, which can allow you to put your self inside fantastical scenes in your profile pic.
As you’ll be able to see on this screenshot, posted by Android Authority, Meta’s creating a brand new “Think about Me” characteristic in WhatsApp, which might allow you to create AI-powered variations of your profile picture, primarily based on textual content prompts.
To activate the method, you’ll merely add a selfie, or a group of selfies, then sort in “Think about me…” and the setting in case your selection.
As per Android Authority:
“Though not accessible but, a leaked screenshot of the characteristic signifies that you simply’ll be requested to add a handful of reference selfies whenever you first decide into the characteristic. The Meta AI chatbot will then create new photographs that “think about” your self in numerous environments “like a forest or outer house”.”
The method sounds similar to Snapchat’s “Goals” selfie technology software.
Goals is successfully the identical factor, enabling you to generate AI variations of your self, with the method then inserting your face into completely different situations and personas.
Which is form of enjoyable, I suppose, and it could possibly be an fascinating addition for WhatsApp, offering extra artistic choices to the platform’s billions of customers.
But it surely’s not precisely a game-changer, and it nonetheless appears like we’re ready for a killer use case for AI inside social and messaging apps. Meta additionally added its AI chatbot to Fb, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, again in April, and whereas functionally, that does add one thing to every app, it doesn’t really feel like a transformative add-on as but.
Meta’s additionally experimenting with the choice to create an AI model of your self, because it seems to be to develop into a pacesetter within the AI house.
However do any of those options add greater than novelty worth? Are these really invaluable, enduring choices that may improve platform engagement?
Possibly I’m overlooking the enjoyable of it, however it looks as if Meta actually must discover a extra invaluable use case for AI, contemplating that it is investing billions of {dollars} into the event of its AI fashions.
I imply, actually, Meta’s funding is aimed toward the way forward for computing, and finally, synthetic basic intelligence (AGI). That’s the Holy Grail of AI, in constructing techniques that may really simulate human thought. However that’s nonetheless a good distance off, and I’m not satisfied that the present wave of AI developments really supplies a heap of worth for social apps.
However, cool selfies, I suppose. For billions of {dollars}.
WhatsApp’s “Think about Me” characteristic remains to be in early improvement and isn’t in public testing as but.
