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It cracks me up that on the new LG TVs (I have a C9), it has “AI preview”. Which means: when I hover the Netflix icon in the dashboard it presents a list of the most recently played shows.

I think the “Open Recent” menu debuted in 1980s? But now it is AI!

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I thought AI in C9 tvs was about improving upscaling quality?

That too is “AI”. But there is a setting to turn off “AI previews”, that is just pulling some content from services into the dashboard.

Yes that sounds unnecessary confusing.

Maybe the confusion is deliberate.

To the average person AI makes everything sound more modern, "smarter". So it gets sprinkled in everything. Things that have been using the same logical algorithm since the dawn of computing are now called AI. The worst is hearing people in the field calling every piece of automation and single purpose code that does one thing the same way every time as "AI".

Everyone does it just to attach their old or boring tech to the fancy new trend and have some "cool" rub off on them.

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