more gimmicks than actual progress. scaling limits and intelligence barrier has definitely been hit
My background isn't AI so I can't contribute to that. My background is WebRTC/telephony so I could build this. Even if I was involved in 'AI stuff' I would have zero impact, but I can build this!
It's likely the people implementing the WhatsApp feature, are not the ones working on the LLM models.
If they believe AGI is around the corner and they are competing with others to get there, seems silly to invest resources in standing up a phone line, etc.