WhatsApp is finally joining the AI race. The Meta AI icon is finally showing up for some users in India in the main chat list. Meta AI is power by the its Large Language Model Meta AI, or long for Llama.
Meta AI is an advance artificial intelligence technology develop by Meta.
For WhatsApp users, the Meta AI can have conversations about anything, from answering a query or making recommendations to just chat with AI.
Meta AI chat opens with a verified badge and says “#with Llama#”.
The chat pop-up says, “Ask Meta AI anything,” and has a number of suggestive prompts on the screen.
The prompts are stack in a carousel format and can be swipe to show more suggestions.
As visible in the screenshot, prompts like “imagine a car race on Mars”, “imagine a holographic bus”, “Healthy life goals”, and more can be given.
But, the Meta AI icon is place in the top right corner with the Camera and New Chat options.
The Meta AI feature is available in limited countries and only supports English.
When starting a chat conversation with Meta AI, the platform notifies, “Messages from Meta AI and other characters are generated by artificial intelligence (AI), using a service from Meta, in response to the prompts you send to the AI.”
The chat platform also clarifies that Meta AI can only read and reply to chats mentioning @Meta AI, which means the tool doesn’t have access to other chats.
The prompt also adds, “As always, your personal messages and calls remain end-to-end encrypted, meaning not even WhatsApp or Meta can see or listen to them.”
How to Chat with AI from Meta on WhatsApp?
First, the Meta AI feature within WhatsApp can answer questions, offer recommendations, and can also talk about interests.
Follow These Steps :
- Tap the circular icon on the top right of the main chat list on your WhatsApp
- Read and accept the terms (if prompt)
- Select a suggest prompt from the screen or type your own
- Tap the send button, and you’ve initiate the conversation
WhatsApp also takes feedback from users on Meta AI.
You can tap and hold the AI-generated responses and tap on ‘Good response’ or ‘Bad response’.
You can also type a reason and submit it.
Meta on the WhatsApp FAQ page mentions that “some messages generated by AIs might not be accurate or appropriate.”
As Meta recently announce Llama 2, the next generation of its large language model for generative AI assistants, and it is expect to release Llama 3 in the coming weeks.
