This report analyzes barriers to adoption and future opportunities in the current smart home and artificial intelligence (AI) landscape and proposes key recommendations for market participants to shape the development of this space.
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the connected home is pervasive, but so far only found in a few devices - smart speakers and displays. While the success of these products point to AI’s great forward potential in the home, overall adoption at this point in time lags behind other industries.
For AI in the connected home to achieve mass adoption outside of its limited use cases today, it must address its branding issue. While “artificial intelligence” conjures images of sentient machines capable of reasoning at a human-level, the truth is that most AI merely consists of automatically making predictions about future data based upon past data. For fears about the possible negative implications of AI to be addressed, suppliers can do a better job of helping disseminate a common understanding of AI’s history and future potential informed by how exactly it functions in practice.
