Honestly this stuff in appliances, at least for the time being, is just extra fancy "fuzzy logic" algorithms.
True AI needs many more inputs than what current companies are putting in their machines, as far as sensors go.
If they're to get real AI to work, they need a way to "see" the dirty water, "see" what fabrics are being put in, etc.
Right now they're only getting inputs from the control panel, motor resistances, temperature, vibration, maybe even water hardness manually set by the user.
That's rather limited, and not really needing AI to handle, when fuzzy logic has done great with those limited, mostly repeatable inputs for decades now.
Dishwashers are only slightly more advanced because they have soil sensors, which very few, if any, washer brands leverage. Whirlpool dishwashers used to have a "foam drive" on the old platform, but it's been taken away, from what I've seen on 1 recent schematic I saw.
And I don't think they even used the foam drive they had, since it never seemed to do anything with all the foamy Cascade pods out there.
I don't really see actual AI coming to laundry for a WHILE.
Right now it's all marketing buzz.
