Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that they are building “AI agents” for WhatsApp as part of an announcement about the company’s plans for the future.<\/p>\n
WABetaInfo reports<\/a><\/strong> that the company is already making significant inroads regarding integrating AI-powered chats for the messaging app.<\/p>\n It showed a preview of how AI agents will work on the platform during an announcement at Connect 2023.<\/p>\n The feature isn’t available yet as it is still in development. However, Zuckerberg announced that the company will release several AI agents, with more to come.<\/p>\n WhatsApp users will be able to join a waitlist to test AI-powered chats when they’re ready.<\/p>\n The AI agents will essentially act as messaging assistants that help users with their day-to-day activities by sending AI messages.<\/p>\n Meta notes that some of the messages may be inappropriate or inaccurate, and it urges users to report the incidents to WhatsApp.<\/p>\n The company is relying on open-source technology to develop its AI agents, which requires it to share its AI work with researchers who want to create their own algorithms using Meta’s work.<\/p>\n Zuckerberg said he believes sharing their progress will help make Meta’s products better.<\/p>\n WhatsApp’s AI agents will act as messaging assistants that help users with their day-to-day activities by sending AI messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":464835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35793,1767,74560,2594],"class_list":["post-509678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509734,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509678\/revisions\/509734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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