Google let me listen to my own queries following, "okay, google." Mostly they were reasonable, but sometimes it heard "okay google" in what sounded to me like

Google let me listen to my own queries following, "okay, google." Mostly they were reasonable, but sometimes it heard "okay google" in what sounded to me like regular driving noise. It's a good reminder that even though we've trained computers to recognize sounds and images, we didn't train them to listen & see the way that we do. The mistakes that these algorithms make need not be anything like the mistakes that a person would make.