OpenAI has captured attention this Wednesday with a rather interesting move. On its tenth day of news, the company led by Sam Altman has announced that ChatGPT already has a phone number. This allows us to incorporate the famous artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot into our agenda to interact with it through new media.

If you are in the United States, you will have the option to make a phone call with ChatGPT. This is possible thanks to the voice functionality that we have seen in the past. If you are anywhere else in the world, after adding it to your calendar, it will appear among your WhatsApp contacts. And you can start a text conversation at any time.

How to chat with ChatGPT on WhatsApp?

OpenAI has published the number 1 (800) 242-8478, which will be useful if you are only in the United States. If you are outside the North American country, you need to add the US country code so that WhatsApp can find the contact. So if you want to use the function from, for example, Spain, you must save the contact +1 (1) (800) 242-8478.

As we can see in the images, the chatbot will be available as another contact, which will allow us to start chatting immediately by accepting the privacy terms. We are faced with an alternative that has advantages and disadvantages. OpenAI opens the door for anyone with WhatsApp to use ChatGPT without having to install the official application.

The disadvantage is that when using ChatGPT from WhatsApp we will lose many functionalities that are available in the application. Voice mode will be absent. We will also not be able to use the vision capabilities to share images (something that could be really useful) or send him voice messages as we would do with any of our contacts.

This version of the chatbot does not have access to real-time information. But despite its limitations, ChatGPT on WhatsApp, which is powered by GPT-4o mini, can be useful for a variety of tasks. If we are organizing Christmas dinner, we can ask you for recipes. Likewise, if we need to translate a text, we will simply have to ask for it by including it in the text in question.

How to make a phone call with ChatGPT from outside the US?

As we noted above, OpenAI has decided to enable phone calls with ChatGPT. This is a very interesting possibility because it makes the chatbot available to everyone. with a telephone line. Now, this possibility is only available in the United States, but it is also possible to use it from other parts of the world.

In our tests from Spain we have been able to verify that phone calls with ChatGPT work if Skype is used. Simply make a call from the app to 1 (800) 242-8478 to start talking. ChatGPT will greet us in English, but we may ask you to speak in Spanish. An important point is that calls are free of charge.

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