LG has begun this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the way the show is expected to continue all week: the Korean electronics giant talked about almost nothing other than artificial intelligence the entire time. At the first major press conference at the world's largest annual gadget festival, LG showed how artificial intelligence would be used in its washing machines to adjust cycles depending on the weather, the air quality and whether the householder has exercise time blocked out in his or her calendar. It showed how AI would appear in its air conditioners, learning the behaviour of people in the house so it knows when to turn itself off and on, just like a Nest smart thermostat already does. It showed how AI in its robot vacuums would learn to distinguish householders from furniture, and how AI in its TVs would be used to improve the image quality in its OLED TVs. And, as widely expected, it announced a deal with Google, in which the search giant's artificial intelligence platform, Google Assistant, would be embedded in LG TVs later this year, allowing users to control all sorts of appliances in their house just by talking to Google Assistant on the TV.