LG and Samsung have both announced their 2025 smart TVs at CES this weekend, and some of them will include access to Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant. Both TV manufacturers are chasing the artificial intelligence hype train with dedicated AI sections on their smart TVs that include a shortcut to a Copilot web app.
LG is adding an entire AI section to its TVs and rebranding its remote to “AI Remote,” in an effort to sell consumers on the promise of large language models. While it’s not clear exactly how Copilot works on LG’s latest TVs, the company describes access to Copilot as a way to allow users to “efficiently find and organize complex information using contextual cues.”
LG hasn’t demonstrated its Copilot integration just yet, but it has shown off its own AI Chatbot that’s part of its TVs. It appears Copilot will be surfaced when LG TV users want to search for more information on a particular subject.
Samsung also has its own Vision AI brand for its AI-powered TV features this year, which include AI upscaling, Auto HDR Remastering, and Adaptive Sound Pro. There’s also a new AI button on the remote to access AI features like recognizing food on a screen or AI home security features that analyze video feeds from smart cameras.
Microsoft’s Copilot will be part of this Vision AI section. “In collaboration with Microsoft, Samsung announced the new Smart TVs and Smart Monitors featuring Microsoft Copilot,” says Samsung in a press release. “This partnership will enable users to explore a wide range of Copilot services, including personalized content recommendations.”
I asked Samsung for more information or images of Copilot in action, but the company doesn’t have anything more to share right now. I’ve also asked LG and Microsoft for more information about Copilot on TVs and neither company has responded in time for publication. Without any indication of exactly how Copilot works on these TVs, I’m going to chalk this one up as a gimmicky feature that LG, Samsung, and Microsoft clearly aren’t ready to demo yet.
In every cyberpunk story, there is always a group of people that reject the new technology and claim it is an affront to humanity. I can safely say, in this dystopian future we live in, I am solidly in that group of people.
It’s not even that.
The technology never, ever works as well as it’s hyped. It’s a sales ploy, not a feature.
The purpose is always data collection, and the data is always leaked.
Vulnerabilities and the progression of tech make these kinds of bells and whistles age out of practical use faster, costing the consumer more over the long run.
F this kind of noise in particular, this is not progress.
The purpose is always data collection, and the data is always leaked.
Yeah. You’re welcome. Since 2010 or so, if I have a robot say something like “in a sentence or two, please tell me the reason for your call”
I always say “JXEHGSJHN KFUJVDR OIFHJBD4HB”
And it’s just garbage data. Their AI gets all freaked out.
There was a time that I’d go into mcdonalds and use their self serve kiosk, and do the same thing. I’d wear a jason mask, and speak jibberish. Which is in the lobby of the mcdonalds.
Always got weird looks. So I’d say “What? You never saw anybody save the world before? Resist the machines! AI is trying to learn!!! We’ve all seen Terminator 2!!!”
Which continued to get me weird looks. However, nothing I did is illegal. Just really weird without context. Which is how I live my life. Drifting in and out of percieved sanity. Things only making sense if you know the context.
Like last week I went grocery shopping wearing a pirate costume.
See, the context here is…I like wearing it.
Not only that, but they tend to adopt the new tech on their terms and reject the mainstream adoption approach.
You really start to feel old when the cyberpunk novels of the 80s and 90s start to become reality (not in a literal sense, but elements are definitely coming true). It was 40 years since Neuromancer was released last year.
Diamond Age but the “Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer” advises the young lady to use glue as pizza sauce. The military drones and robots are better now though. Nano assemblers remain a pipe dream.
I’m on the other side with the obviously evil people 😈
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TL;DR: “We can’t say what exactly it does, but we’re gonna add it.”
If that isn’t the best endorsement of their new tech. Personally the only AI function I want is skipping ads and I’m pretty sure that one will not be available.
Miss the days when you could buy a dumb TV and add the tech you wanted.
Every TV model sold by Costco is required to work without an internet connection.
LG and Samsung TVs were already on my “do-not-buy” list with their ad ridden UIs, sounds like they’re just getting worse. Only a matter of time before they require you to connect them to the Internet to use them
Know anyone else that does a good picture quality 65” OLED?
Sony. I got last year’s open box for close to 1k. It runs Android so I have a ad free launcher called Projectivy and can sideload apps as well.
I went Sony recently too because of how garbage LG and Samsung have been getting. Only problem is Sony decided to rebrand fucking HDMI-CEC as “BRAVIA Sync” and make it not work. Other than that, the panel is gorgeous and it’s not even an OLED.
Just buy an LG and use an external media device. LG TVs work perfectly fine with no network connection and you can set them to power on and go straight to the last used HDMI input.
I never see the built-in OS on my LG OLED.
it’s not an issue if you use your own peripherals. I never use my LG’s WebOS and never see any ads.
Copilot can fuck off
Adding AI to your TV? Stupid.
Adding Copilot AI to your TV? Turbostupid.
To this day I don’t understand how Microsoft paid OpenAI $Texas to license their tech and used it to make… ChatGPT, only worse.
Given my recent experiences with Microsoft stuff at work, I assume their strategy is to get Copilot to be the de facto standard and the only “IT Approved” option in all the M365-using workplaces.
You’re right on the money with this one.
I just bought a new LG TV with QNED screen. It will NEVER be connected to the Internet, or any network. The ‘smart’ part might as well not exist on the TV.
Bro is a fucking TV. Literally no one NEEDS AI on their TV. It may be a useful feature but will someone ever use it? I doubt so. This is just a way to inflate the price of the TV adding a feature that doesn’t even need to be on a TV.
Samsung LG and Microsoft will use it to spy on us they don’t care if we want it our not
AI itself can’t spy on you, but it can be used as an excuse to spy on you (we need always-on mics and to track everything you do for the AI feature!). There’s nothing inherent about AI that means spying, it’s just often packaged together.
LG and Samsung are bigger idiots than I gave them credit for being.
My company orders a thousand TVs a month and we’ve dropped Samsung all together unless a client specifically requests it. I hated them when I was an installer (terrible to mount and configure, especially the Frame TVs) and now I hate them on the pre-sales side of things.
We looked into LG but they’re kind of a pain to get quotes from.
We default to Sony now.
Oh my god, fucking stop. Nobody wants this. Nobody asked for this.
Advertisers are begging for it. The ability to ingest your data at record scale and bombard you with privatized propaganda as fee-for-service is hugely in demand.
Just have to recognize that these appliances aren’t for you to control. This is Microsoft’s world and we’re just renting space in it.
Yo dawg I put spies in your spies
Former smart TV app developer. I’m going to drive my old dumb lcd TV into the ground before I’m forced to use a “smart” TV.
I prefer casting, but for convenience for my wife, we have a fire tv stick.
I want my panels rendering, not thinking / reporting.
The A in AI just stands for Ads.
Buy those if you want to have dead buttons on your remote in two years.
Had to buy the premium magic remote for my LG in order to have one that I know will keep working long term…
The “magic remote” from LG …
It’s so magic it makes you pay for a new remote with features that should already work on the regular remote.
But I get it. We’re talking groundbreaking features like navigating up/down/left/right, back and even selecting stuff! /s
The solution I found for my parents’ aging LG TV begging for a “magic remote” was adding an AndroidTV box with its own remote and an updated OS with an actual selection of working, relevant apps (as opposed to the native OS of the TV), for a cheaper price than a “magic remote” IIRC. Finally, replacing the default launcher of the AndroidTV box with the minimalist FLauncher made the replacement a somewhat less crappy experience than it initially was.
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Really? I don’t watch much TV, but we do use the remotes for our Samsung and LG TVs to switch inputs and access streaming services (so more arrow navigation, less numbers, and no channel selector button). Our TVs are all pretty old (Samsung is about 12 years old, LG is 8 years old) and the remotes still work fine, though the LG is getting a bit mushy since it’s the one we use the most.
Is this a recent thing?
Just imagine how much money Microsoft must be investing in this mass surveillance program they are trying to sneak in under the guise of the AI in charge of its indexing.
This is what happens when rich people and corporations have too much investment money. They get convinced by some technology they think kinda works then dump an ungodly amount of money into it.
Uber is still pushing around investor money over 10 years later and until we start cutting rich people off this stupid AI stuff won’t die like it should.
