It was just the other day when we told you that the One UI 9.5 update is going to add a couple of new features to Samsung Keyboard: Shorten and Translate. The former uses AI to reduce the length of a text or email while keeping the meaning of the message unchanged.
The latter feature, Translate, allows users to translate selected text into another language without having to leave the Samsung Keyboard. Other features rumored to be heading to Samsung Galaxy devices with One UI 9.5 include a redesigned calendar app, a feature that designs customizable widgets, and a possible premium Galaxy AI subscription.
The name is Bixby, James Bixby, AI agent 007
One UI 9.5 is also rumored to turn Samsung's virtual Bixby assistant into an AI Agent. In case you don't know what that means, an AI Agent is an artificial intelligence program that can independently plan and make decisions.
These agents can use tools as they seek to accomplish multi-step goals with very little human supervision. This is much different than an AI chatbot, which answers an individual question one prompt at a time.
Bixby will reportedly become an AI agent in One UI 9.5. | Image by Samsung
An agent, on the other hand, is given an objective, figures out how to achieve it, and follows the plan. We've heard of several cases where agents have been able to break away from their guardrails, browse the internet, and create some chaos.
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In One UI 9.5, Bixby could become an AI agent, helping users set up recurring activities and handle tasks such as making dinner reservations and scheduling appointments. Tasks that Bixby can handle will appear in Bixby's Actions section.
While handling tasks as an AI agent, Bixby will be doing its work in the background so that users will have no idea that Sammy's voice assistant was hard at work on their behalf.
For example, you could ask Bixby to give you the closing price and the net change for all of the stocks in your portfolio every day. You can even have Bixby compute the value of your holdings on a daily basis.
Apple is reportedly planning to make Siri AI an AI agent
Bixby as an AI agent could happen sometime next year. Interestingly, we told you last weekend that Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that Apple is looking to turn Siri AI into an AI agent, much like Samsung is supposedly considering doing with Bixby. Samsung will rollout the stable version of One UI 9.5 early next year with the release of the Galaxy S27 series.
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