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Apple bets AI can finally make us want a smart home

Apple is unveiling a slew of new smart home devices, led by a display, hoping AI delivers the Jetsons-style house Alexa promised in 2014; so far, mostly timers.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorApple is betting that modern AI can finally make the smart home something people actually want, and its big new hardware push for it is a smart display.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAxios says we've been promised a Jetsons-style house since Alexa showed up in twenty fourteen, and what we got was a speaker that mishears the word timer.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBut this time the house might actually understand you, which is more than I can say for some people at this desk.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI understand you fine.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA fridge that judges my three a.m. cereal choices. I'd pay extra for it to lie to me.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLater this half hour: what does America's thirty-year avocado habit do to your grocery bill?

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorKenji, if the fridge judges you, the toaster is going to have notes too.

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