Asking questions to clarify user intent is a very low bar for intelligence. A bar that all SOTA models fail consistently at though. (It's both funny and legit infuriating when Opus, after having made a dozen wild assumptions without checking with you, then comes back with a request for clarification on some mundane topic).
The user has to express their desire somehow. Either in the chat text itself or with a simple toggle. Not sure which is more user friendly actually.
OpenAI tried auto-routing with the initial GPT-5 release and it was immediately clear why that was a bad idea.
intelligence is not omniscience though
Asking questions to clarify user intent is a very low bar for intelligence. A bar that all SOTA models fail consistently at though. (It's both funny and legit infuriating when Opus, after having made a dozen wild assumptions without checking with you, then comes back with a request for clarification on some mundane topic).