ChatGPT officially arrives on WhatsApp and you can even talk to the AI ​​by calling it on the phone

WhatsApp It is not a platform foreign to AI. In some markets, it has been available for months MetaAIand third-party AI chatbots have been a reality for some time. For example, the Spanish LightIAwhich connects to the APIs of OpenAI -ChatGPT for text and Whisper for audio transcriptions – to respond to user demands. What we had not had until now was the official OpenAI chatbot in the Meta app, but it has already arrived.

1-800-242-8478 It is the phone number that you have to add to your contact book or directly in WhatsApp to be able to chat with ChatGPT, 1 being the prefix of the United States. But you can not only converse in written form, but also you have the option to call that phone number and talk directly to ChatGPT for 15 minutes a monthat no greater cost than the call itself. While the chatbot for WhatsApp is now available globally, the telephone conversation service It has only been launched in the United States, although there is a way to use it from Spain.

According to the Xataka portal, making the phone call through the messaging application skypeyou can talk to ChatGPT from Spain. The AI ​​will be presented in English (‘Hello again, I’m ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence assistant. Our conversation may be reviewed for security reasons. How can I help you?’), but speaking to him in Spanish he changes the language to that of Cervantes.

ChatGPT on WhatsApp, in any case, does not have the same capabilitiesFor now, in its web version or through the app. While calling on the phone connects with the language model GPT-4othrough WhatsApp messages the OpenAI API responds with GPT-4o Mini (GPT-o1, o1 Mini and 4o are more advanced versions available through the other access routes to AI) and does not include voice interaction, only in written form.

This version of ChatGPT does not have access to the internet and it depends only on the data with which the 4o Mini model has been trained, which reaches up to October 2023. It also cannot create images or process audio or understand image or text files. In its first message, ChatGPT will indicate that you accept OpenAI’s usage policies if you continue the conversation.

Compared to the web and mobile app versions of the chatbot, OpenAI sees integration with the chatbot’s official phone number ‘a cheap way to try it out through channels that are familiar’but notes that users will find more complete features, higher usage limits and customization options in those. OpenAI has also noted that the company will not use phone calls with ChatGPT to train your language models.