AI is coming to more places in the home, jumping beyond the phone to the laundry, TV, and even your computer monitor.
There’s an AI story every week, but the next AI story mightn’t be how AI helps you make photos or how AI can write code for you. Rather, it could be how AI helps you save energy on your laundry, or how AI will be found in your TV and computer screen. AI everywhere, it seems.
AI in your screens
If you own a recent TV, you probably already have a little bit of AI inside without realising it. Known by its other name, most TVs found today use machine learning to upscale videos so they look better on their high resolution screens.
That’s a touch of AI, though the next Samsung TVs take that touch a little bit further with AI integration by way of Microsoft Copilot.
Powered by Open AI, Samsung looks set to integrate one of Windows 11’s main features directly into its 2025 TVs and smart monitors, using the Tizen operating system on its displays to integrate the AI directly in.
It means you’ll be able to converse with Copilot if you want to using Samsung’s lifestyle hub Daily+, while the system can also offer personalised recommendations from the screens themselves.
AI in your smart laundry appliances
One place AI is definitely popping up is in the company’s laundry machines, with its “Bespoke” AI laundry appliances build to consume less energy with what the company says are “refined washing algorithms”.
Similar to how LG is making moves to build AI-based laundry appliances focussed on energy savings, so too is Samsung, developing a new generation of its “AI Wash+” which detects the weight, fabric type, and soiling level, and then adjusts the water and detergent level so that the wash is essentially calibrated for the laundry load. That should simultaneously optimise the energy and water usage, while dealing with your laundry at the same time.
There’s a similar approach to drying with Samsung’s Bespoke AI Dryer, with some models also including an automatic door opening mode to open the door of the machine to lower humidity and reduce moisture.
Neither model has been announced for Australia just yet, though new appliances often arrive a little later in our neck of the woods.
Smart appliances get seven years of updates
Samsung’s other home appliance news is one that you probably won’t see coming, and frankly we’re not sure if it’s something many will actively think about, as select Samsung appliances look set to receive up to seven years of updates after launching.
It’s a move that will echo Samsung’s phones, providing the long update cycle for more gadgets that use Samsung’s One UI, which some of its new appliances certainly will. The updates look set to bolster security over time, linking compatible devices and allowing them to monitor each other, while other features could be added in that period as well.
However, we’re not sure many will care simply because most of these appliances will do the thing they’re designed to do over the time owned until they stop working.
It’s unlikely the owner of a fridge will necessarily care about a security update for the appliance that stores food, and the same is true with a laundry machine like a combo washer dryer. And yet both of these are gadgets Samsung will apply this long update life span to.
What the updates will more than likely cover extends beyond simply security, and probably more keeps the appliances compatible with smart home standards, so you can keep using them with your phone, tablet, and other smart home devices, particularly as the category evolves.
