The Google Home outage wasn't a great sign for the future of AI

If your voice-controlled AI speaker can't respond to your voice, well... what's the point?

Google Home owners were reportedly faced with that existential quandary last weekend as an undetermined number of the smart assistant-powered speaker hubs went offline. The AI behind the Google Home, Google Assistant, completely shut down all user requests after being prompted by the wake phrase, "OK Google," according to Android Headlines.

The Home speakers replied to the  fruitless prompts with responses like, “Hmm, something went wrong. Try again in a few seconds,” or “There was a glitch. Try again in a few seconds.” Read more...