> Watching an unusually well-Foleyed action movie on a good sound system can probably fool any recognition system Google can jam into next year's $150 smart speaker.
Sure, but pair that with "Shazam!" style song recognition and now it knows you're watching a movie, and what movie it is, and can more easily filter for false positives there, no?
Maybe I'm watching any one of a billion YouTube videos or livestreams, or a Japanese police drama from the 90s that only exists on DVD - the set of things that may cause a false positive seems almost intractably large and inaccessible.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, here; of course not EVERY POSSIBLE EXAMPLE can be detected; I was merely positing a way of also avoiding missing every possible example.
Do you want to bet your life on whether someone found that feature idea exciting enough for a promotion project at work?
Even if the feature works perfectly, were still talking about (hypothetically, as this isn't a real feature yet) automatically summoning a platoon of people with the
de facto legal right to kill you if they send danger which is exactly the reason they were called just because a potentially dangerous noise was heard
Even if calling them is not dangerous, it seems like it'd have to be extremely reliable to not cause a problem. If a large percentage of people have similar devices, it seems you would have to have a low false positive rate for the police to not be spending an unreasonable amount of time dealing with auto-nuisance calls.
Sure, but pair that with "Shazam!" style song recognition and now it knows you're watching a movie, and what movie it is, and can more easily filter for false positives there, no?