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.
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.
The only “smart” feature I want in my TV is a slot to insert a CM5 so I can run my own software.
There are/were signage TV’s that had that at one point. Was really hoping it would take off because that’s my dream TV setup too
I think NEC might still offer some on the CM4? unsure if they can still be purchased as of now, as that war in '22
Edit: appears they’re still sold! https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/system-on-a-chip
I wish consumer TVs had a CM5 slot
Their 65" signage TV with CM4 slot retails at 1300$, while its not a fancy micro led with direct lighting, it’s never going to spy on you. To me thats a worthy tradeoff. If I needed a TV in my life, thats what I’d be getting.
Honestly it sounds nice, maybe one day ill buy it if I can find it cheap used
Yo dawg I put spies in your spies
No one asked for this
What the fuck is the point of putting “AI” into a fucking TV, other than to have something else to spy on you?
Buy those if you want to have dead buttons on your remote in two years.
Sadly true, but if you’re already stuck with one of these TVs like me, you should know that you can get flawless knockoff remotes online in two packs super cheap.
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Does HDMI CEC keep the device always on? How else could it work? It’s wasting energy.
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.
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?
This is why I never plug my TV into the Internet.
This is why I unplugged my TV from the internet some time ago. It’s been bad for a while but this is insane.
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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.
This is just a way to inflate the price of the TV
It’s not. It’s far more valuable. It’s a data-mining tool.
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.
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.
“Finally!!!”
- what MS, LG, Samsung think their buyers be like
Cute of you to think those corps give a shit about what the consumer thinks or wants
Miss the days when you could buy a dumb TV and add the tech you wanted.
You can still, they do have HDMI ports.
Nothing is stopping them from adding the smart crap to things over HDMI inputs. If it doesn’t have it at launch, I recommend blocking it from getting updates so you don’t get “upgraded” later.
Yes they do and I do add my own tech but my experience with some of these devices has not been great.
I have LG TVs which I connected to the network and have been updated over the years to have really bad UX and are now polluted with ads.
I had an LG sound bar that was great for a while until it completely stopped working. Powers on, all functions seem to work, just no sound. Originally it worked as a Chromecast device too, but they stopped doing updates and Google stopped working with the old API.
My fear is that eventually there will be an update that bricks a device. Now I’ve taken them off the network, but how long before we have TVs that require Internet to even function.
These smart TVs have a lot more hardware and software than they need which means a lot more to break.
You just have to deal with all the smart garbage every time you turn it on
There’s usually a way to get it to jump to the last input.
This news is reminding me that I need to unplug my TV from the Internet.
This scares me if I have to buy a new one, because I’d completely forgotten my TV has smart functions, I haven’t seen a trace of it for years with a Pi hooked up on the HDMI. It just starts up to the last input it was on. Heck, I turn it on with Home Assistant Voice automation that sends a CEC command to it over that HDMI. I haven’t even used the remote in months.
Yeah mine takes forever to boot.
They are still paying for the “”“smart”“” part that they don’t want
The smart part of a large TV is cheap. Also why they’re slow af. The price is dominated by the LCD module.
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Quite the opposite, actually. The “smart” part gives you huge discounts because they expect to make it back on the data they collect.
I can see the logic, but is actually cheaper or the “dumb TV” is just overpriced? They still need to add a processor and shitty computer parts to the TV to have the smart thingy
is actually cheaper or the “dumb TV” is just overpriced?
I don’t know what that means. I don’t know how old you are or where you are getting your perspective from but before TVs were “smart” they cost waaaay more. Back in like 2012 I paid ~$2k for a 50" plasma TV. Still have the receipt.
TV is cheaper now, if you compare it to when the technology for plasma TV, ultra HD and so on first started, production got a lot better and cheaper. What I’m asking is: is the TV part of the “smart TV” cheap and they’re making us pay more for it by adding the smart part, or is the logic that they’re giving a discount because they can make the extra money with the data.
Because it could start with paying the extra cost with the data, but now it’s the norm and they can charge more for it and still make more money selling data.
or is the logic that they’re giving a discount because they can make the extra money with the data.
Yes that is what I said.
but now it’s the norm and they can charge more for it and still make more money selling data.
They still have to compete with all the other TV manufacturers.
the parts are mostly already there anyway for image processing, perhaps upgraded slightly. I doubt it’s a significant cost.
Every time I asked for a high-quality, non-RGB/backlight, yet affordable keyboard, people never understood that I’d still pay for it.
Every TV model sold by Costco is required to work without an internet connection.
Maybe I should just mount a giant computer monitor to my wall instead, ironically those are much “dumber” than your typical TV
When I first bought my LG TV, the homescreen was great. The cursor-thing with the remote was annoying, but it didn’t really have ads, it had every app I needed, etc.
But it kept updating and then demanding I give it more permissions. Kept getting worse and worse as time went on. So recently I said fuck it, bought an Apple TV, and did a factory reset on the TV. The TV is just a TV now, it has no WiFi access so it doesn’t ever bother me. And the Apple TV is better than the LG OS ever was. Also I can bring the Apple TV to hotels (if they have accessible HDMI ports) which is pretty neat.
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