Meta’s including one other AI aspect to WhatsApp, this time by way of a brand new picture creation device, which can allow you to position your self inside fantastical scenes in your profile pic.

As you’ll be able to see on this screenshot, posted by Android Authority, Meta’s creating a brand new “Think about Me” function in WhatsApp, which might allow you to create AI-powered variations of your profile picture, based mostly on textual content prompts.

To activate the method, you’ll merely add a selfie, or a group of selfies, then sort in “Think about me…” and the setting in case your alternative.

As per Android Authority:

“Though not accessible but, a leaked screenshot of the function signifies that you just’ll be requested to add a handful of reference selfies whenever you first choose into the function. The Meta AI chatbot will then create new photos that “think about” your self in several environments “like a forest or outer house”.”

The method sounds similar to Snapchat’s “Goals” selfie technology device.

Goals is successfully the identical factor, enabling you to generate AI variations of your self, with the method then inserting your face into completely different eventualities and personas.

Which is sort of enjoyable, I assume, and it could possibly be an attention-grabbing addition for WhatsApp, offering extra inventive choices to the platform’s billions of customers.

However it’s not precisely a game-changer, and it nonetheless appears like we’re ready for a killer use case for AI inside social and messaging apps. Meta additionally added its AI chatbot to Fb, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, again in April, and whereas functionally, that does add one thing to every app, it doesn’t really feel like a transformative add-on as but.

Meta’s additionally experimenting with the choice to create an AI model of your self, because it appears to turn into a pacesetter within the AI house.

However do any of those options add greater than novelty worth? Are these truly beneficial, enduring choices that may improve platform engagement?

Perhaps I’m overlooking the enjoyable of it, however it looks like Meta actually must discover a extra beneficial use case for AI, contemplating that it is investing billions of {dollars} into the event of its AI fashions.

I imply, actually, Meta’s funding is aimed toward the way forward for computing, and finally, synthetic basic intelligence (AGI). That’s the Holy Grail of AI, in constructing techniques that may truly simulate human thought. However that’s nonetheless a good distance off, and I’m not satisfied that the present wave of AI developments truly supplies a heap of worth for social apps.

However, cool selfies, I assume. For billions of {dollars}.

WhatsApp’s “Think about Me” function remains to be in early growth and isn’t in public testing as but.