You can start a chat with ChatGPT on WhatsApp by texting
1-800-242-8478 on the app. You can communication ChatGPT like any other
WhatsApp chatbot but get replies matching those from the free tier of ChatGPT
on the mobile application or website. Not every ChatGPT feature is obtainable
on WhatsApp either. You can’t ask the AI to search for things online or examine
images, at least for now.
If you’d rather have your AI responses by audio, you can
pick up your phone to dial 1-800-CHATGPT (that’s 1-800-242-8478), and a very welcoming,
very human-like womanly voice will answer all the same queries you might kind
out to send to ChatGPT. The knowledge is pretty much like ChatGPT’s Progressive
Voice Mode, where you ask questions, and the AI responds in real-time. It can
help you interpret a sentence, give references, or chat about whatever’s on
your mind.
There are clear accessibility benefits to OpenAI in making
ChatGPT far more internationally available, even with all of the limits and
caveats. It’s the same aim Google set up a phone number for Google Associate
that people could call to interact with the voice associate. But, it also
points to how OpenAI and its opponents want to see AI integrated into more communiqué
channels. That’s why both OpenAI and Apple were keen to add ChatGPT competences
to Siri, augmenting the iOS assistant with the AI model.
There are also restrictions to ChatGPT on WhatsApp and by
phone. You can only message ChatGPT on WhatsApp a restricted amount a day,
though OpenAI is vague about what that limit actually is. You’ll get a cautionary
when you approach the limit, so you’re not astonished by the cutoff. Similarly,
ChatGPT phone conversations aren't limitless. Instead of a message cap, you get
15 minutes a month for verbal connections with the AI. And the phone number
only works in the U.S. for now. An automatic phone number was surely a surprise
for OpenAI’s latest ‘present,’ akin to discovery an old wooden train under the
wrapping paper. I'd expect that OpenAI will maybe take a more future-facing
approach to the final two gifts before the event ends.