Artificial intelligence is also coming to the world's most popular messaging application:
Meta has begun testing the artificial intelligence mechanism in the WhatsApp application that will soon allow editing and processing of images using AI.
Recently, Meta presented the ability to create artificial intelligence at a conference a few weeks ago, and users around the world have already started experimenting with it in the countries where the feature was released. But the company has begun testing new, more advanced AI capabilities that allow users to instantly process and edit an image.
In WhatsApp beta 2.24.14.20, users are offered two new Meta AI capabilities. They can upload a photo and ask questions about it, and they can also edit the photo with artificial intelligence using text prompts. Users can upload their photos or take one using the camera button in the lower left corner. Meta also says the uploaded photos will be analyzed by AI, including facial features, and users can delete those photos at any time.
However, it is currently unconfirmed what level of photo editing Meta AI enables in the WhatsApp app which is known to "downgrade" image resolution significantly. Considering other photo editing tools powered by meta AI, WhatsApp should be able to remove object, replace background and also adjust the appearance of the photo. This is not a dramatic technological innovation, as today many photo editing applications also allow this to be done using artificial intelligence.
The Meta AI in the WhatsApp application is based on the company's latest Llama 3 artificial intelligence model that supports multimodality. It can understand text, voice and images, and is also able to create responses in text, voice and images.