[aurareturn]

I think shopping can be done via chat.

For the rest, they can still exist as apps inside this OpenAI smart phone but the OS layer will "see" everything and be able to ingest everything you do into a context. Next time you want to do something or ask for something, the AI knows a lot more about you.

Being just another app on iOS, it's impossible for OpenAI to do the above.

[marstall]

> the OS layer will "see" everything and be able to ingest everything you do into a context

that makes sense, i could see it being useful. though it would be a feature easily replicated by Apple or Android if it got some traction.

Maybe this idea of apps being "replaced by agents" is less literal than I'm thinking.

Like with music, maybe it could be an agent that in general helps me be a cooler, more informed music listener by constantly thinking about new ways of accessing myriad sources of info about what's cool, or what I would think would be cool.

[aurareturn]

  that makes sense, i could see it being useful. though it would be a feature easily replicated by Apple or Android if it got some traction.

There is no doubt in my mind that Apple and Google are going this way. They may have a huge advantage over OpenAI. But OpenAI can't breakthrough without making their own phone so they have to try.

[altmanaltman]

but that's just like copilot not ai "replacing" apps like the title claims