Meta’s including one other AI factor to WhatsApp, this time by way of a brand new picture creation device, which can allow you to put your self inside fantastical scenes to your profile pic.
As you possibly can see on this screenshot, posted by Android Authority, Meta’s growing a brand new “Think about Me” characteristic in WhatsApp, which might allow you to create AI-powered variations of your profile picture, based mostly on textual content prompts.
To activate the method, you’ll merely add a selfie, or a set of selfies, then kind in “Think about me…” and the setting in case your alternative.
As per Android Authority:
“Though not out there 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 several environments “like a forest or outer house”.”
The method sounds similar to Snapchat’s “Desires” selfie technology device.
Desires 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 sort of enjoyable, I suppose, and it may very well be an attention-grabbing addition for WhatsApp, offering extra inventive choices to the platform’s billions of customers.
Nevertheless it’s not precisely a game-changer, and it nonetheless looks 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 appears to grow to be a pacesetter within the AI house.
However do any of those options add greater than novelty worth? Are these truly precious, enduring choices that may improve platform engagement?
Possibly I’m overlooking the enjoyable of it, nevertheless it looks like Meta actually must discover a extra precious 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 normal intelligence (AGI). That’s the Holy Grail of AI, in constructing methods that may truly simulate human thought. However that’s nonetheless a good distance off, and I’m not satisfied that the present wave of AI developments truly offers a heap of worth for social apps.
However, cool selfies, I suppose. For billions of {dollars}.
WhatsApp’s “Think about Me” characteristic continues to be in early improvement and isn’t in public testing as but.
