WhatsApp with AI

... a technique for integration.

WhatsApp (registered) is one of the more popular chat apps today. It already supports integration with another Android apps via Android intents and custom url messaging objects. External Android apps can send data to WhatsApp via a url scheme and similarly items from WhatsApp can be shared with other apps. This technology is pretty well known. A problem with mobile apps is that mobiles are not ideal for building such integrations because of their limited computing and battery power. Thus a need to look at integrating a user interface like Whatsapp with desktop applications.

Currently WhatsApp is also exploring ways to connect with the businesses and at the moment their API is still under development and testing.

AI can be built in the Whatsapp chat messaging system and a demo of this is the topic of the present article. It is vital to remember that any interaction with Whatsapp from external applications must follow two simple rules...NOT sending unsolicited messages to unknown users and NOT flooding the system by sending too many messages, ideally no more than what a normal user would type in within a specific time. If one follows these two basic rules then, apparently, one can go ahead towards integration thus making Whatsapp a more engaging app in a clean way for both business and games.

This is to the benefit of both the company and other users in a clean (no spam intended) and engaging way !.

The two demos shown below are integrations between WhatsApp and a Desktop computer application playing games. The Desktop application was written in C# but that can easily be extended to Java. Future demos, to come, hope to integrate WhatsApp with AI bots . The demos show that a "TWO-WAY"communication between WhatsApp and a Desktop are not only possible but achievable and once this is proved then the same concept can be extended to any two way communication between the user-interface chosen ie Whatsapp and any Desktop or Web application like an AI bot, webservice or whatever.

Video links to the demo are in the document below.

Demo 1

A WhatsApp user group playing Tic-Tac-Toe against a desktop application

Demo 2

A WhatsApp user group playing a game of Guess the Movie or Song against other users with the game management being handled by the desktop application