LG is showing an AI home agent at IFA that reads your grocery receipts, knows your routines, and runs your appliances without being asked, which is either the logical endpoint of smart home tech or the thing you switch off the first time it runs the vacuum at midnight. While I don’t think we are quite at the vacuum part yet (although you can schedule robot vacuums now), this is much closer to reality than you might think, especially with LG jumping into the ring.
Smart Homes are the next logical frontier for an AI “invasion,” or better said, integration. Kitchen and home appliances are already networked into traditional smart homes. With machine learning and by scrubbing all home data from devices, users, and routines, LG and others can capitalize on it if done privately and securely.
I expect others in the home-device space, such as Samsung, to release similar hardware and services. I already have a Samsung hub, TV, washer, dryer, and fridge that are integrated from a purely connection and notification standpoint. I’m just waiting to see what comes next.