Do you ever feel lonely and no one is online on Whatsapp? OpenAI has now come up with a solution for that. Recently, you can call and app with ChatGPT.
Whatsapp users can now reach ChatGPT at 1-800-242-8478. Calling to this number works only in the United States for now, but fortunately, apps can be made worldwide. Whether the calling feature will also become available in the Netherlands is unfortunately not yet known.
In case you live in the US and already have plans to hang on the line for hours with the chatbot, we have bad news. OpenAI has set a limit. The company has decided that a maximum of 15 minutes per phone number per month can be called with ChatGPT.
OpenAI devised ChatGPT feature only recently
The feature was announced on the tenth day of “ship-mas,” where the company discusses something in a livestream on YouTube every day at 10AM PT, with us at 7 PM. Chat-GPT’s call and app feature was only conceived a few weeks ago, OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil told the livestream.
OpenAI sees the new chat and call feature as a logical step. Bringing ChatGPT to WhatsApp makes it a lot more accessible to people just getting acquainted with artificial intelligence. They don’t have to download a special app now. So apping was conceived as a simpler alternative to the ChatGPT app and works with the GPT-4o Mini model. Once users outgrow apping, they can switch to the more comprehensive app.
12 days of OpenAI
Whether OpenAI will come up with any big surprises in the coming “ship-mas” days is unknown. In previous livestreams, the relationship between ChatGPT and Apple Intelligence was discussed and other projects passed by. We have two more livestreams to come.
ChatGPT is constantly evolving. OpenAI reportedly has the successor to ChatGPT-4o, called Orion, almost ready. If rumors are to be believed, this latest version will be up to a hundred times more powerful than the current ChatGPT-4. Initially, Orion will be available to companies OpenAI works with.
