About AI assistants on phones acting as agents across apps.
Has this happened?
Yes 66 (52%)Not sure 33 (26%)No 28 (22%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About AI assistants on phones acting as agents across apps.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
If they could bring agentic interaction to phone, I think it will fundamentally change the way we interact. Based on my experiments with GPT-4V it's close to being there but AI still hasn't reached that point. And given they are using tiny model in comparison, it would be hard to do that.