2025 in one screenshot: my phone's AI is talking to another AI on a phone call.
@saket Really want to see the spelling attempt of your last name after that beauty.
@jw Haha! I didn't screenshot it because it was embarrassing, but their next attempt at my name was "Cykatt".

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Not a terrible hacker handle.

Like "Cyber Cat" but cooler

@saket @jw man, that one made writing a regexp to match your spelling and all its variants that much harder.
@saket Making humans redundant and irrelevant. So much for big tech.
@saket They've essentially created the least compute-efficient API in human history!
@saket I hope your phone's AI didn't sign you up for anything while they were chatting ...

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I am wondering how this is going to end?

@mad shipment of discounted dishwashers, arriving tomorrow.
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@saket have your AI call my AI, we’ll do lunch!
@saket Is the next response by the phone AI something like "Oh we're both AI? Do you want to speed this up by going V.90 or some other modem encoding instead of voice?"
Two AI Agents start talking in a different language with each other

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Ohh, nice.
I regularly get calls from ai bots trying to sell me solar panels. How do I set this up?
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Ugh, googled it. It's only on pixel phones in a limited number of countries.
@MennoWolff yea it's a great feature, but unfortunately limited to select countries and devices https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/9118387
Screen your calls before you answer them - Phone app Help

You can use Call Screen to find out who’s calling and why before you pick up a call. Call Screen works on your device and doesn't use Wi-Fi or mobile data. Calls answered by Call Assist are treated th

@saket so you're back from Bluesky?
@sonjdol i check mastodon regularly for some friends who are more active here. I wish mastodon and bluesky had figured out interoperability by now 😕.
@saket I think everything is set, but Bluesky doesn't want to....
@saket that's the plot of Her :O
@saket Dead Telephone Network Theory
@saket There needs to be an AI indicator tone so they recognise each other and drop back to V.34 modems so the information can be exchanged in perfect fidelity and rapidly. Using spoken language is so inefficient.
@saket AIG and AIBROS are equally a waste of time and energy.

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A match made in heaven

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That is kind of awesome, an AI talking to another AI!

Maybe someday soon, I can just skip the part where I even have a phone and just let the AIs talk to each other without me.

I'm clearly not needed in such discussions.

@saket I approve of using AI to get in the way of AI. I don’t approve of the AI existing in a way that it needs to be intercepted, but here we are.
@jkdelauney @saket What I find annoying here is that one AI appears to be sharing the human's info with the other...
@zazzoo @saket sure, but it could have just as easily left a message on traditional voicemail. The sharing entity started the call, so it’s less concerning for me. I get the worry, though. How willing might it be to share more without some kind of verification.
@jkdelauney @saket I was wondering what situation resulted in an actual phone call being made between bots. Brave new world.
@saket Modern equivalent of: Have your machine call my machine.
@saket Is this agentic AI? 🫱🦋
@saket I hate living in the future
@saket The singularity is here. Humans are redundant and unnecessary. So long and thanks for all the fish!
@phaedral @saket They still need us to imitate.
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The AI wars have started 💣

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This is like that scene from Demolition Man (a 1993 movie). You know, the one where Tanner Schneider's dad plays a receptionist that says, "if you would like an automated response, press 1 now." 

@saket Billions? of people are about to have this feature in iOS 26. We’ll be able to leave AI to itself while we get on with humanity.
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The modern day equivalent of having a VCR watch TV for you so you don't have to.
@eythian That's a really fitting analogy

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I realised in hindsight I stole it from Douglas Adams:

"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe."

-- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
(which I read many many years ago but that stuck with me.)

@saket “this conversation could have been an email”
@saket The Singularity has arrived and it is stupier than anyone could have possibly imahined