Your Smart Home Is a Remote Control. A Home AI Would Actually Run the House
The smart home was never smart
When I first wrote about this topic in May 2025, I argued that a true home AI assistant was becoming inevitable. Eighteen months later, I think the framing needs an update. The assistant has arrived. The intelligence, in the sense I care about, mostly has not.
Look at what a typical smart home built in the last decade does. You tap an app and the lights change. You tell a speaker to play music and it plays music. A motion sensor trips and a camera records. Every one of those is a human-issued command or a hard-coded rule. The house is equipped, but it is not making decisions.
Smart speakers deserve credit for making the concept mainstream. They also set the ceiling. I covered why that generation of assistants stalled in an earlier piece, Failure of AI Voice Assistants in the Age of AI....
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