We've had the ability for DVRs to automatically detect and skip ads for at least a decade now. Dish is the most prominent company that tried it, and immediately got sued by TV networks and had to remove the functionality.
My TiVo has a commercial skip button. It doesn’t work everywhere, but for a show that’s been in your queue for a few days it usually does. Apparently it uses AI to detect where others have fastfowarded or used the 30 second skip button and figures it out. It’s pretty nice for those times when I actually want to record something that has ads in it (which is rare).