classic33
Leg End Member
HAL 9000
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
What good is Alexa.
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"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Bit like a spouse then?
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Deleted member 26715
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How long are they storing this recording?
byegad
Legendary Member
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But with an even better ,nay flawless, memory!
classic33
Leg End Member
Siri, two years.
According to the manufacturer.
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But do you not have to press a button for Siri, whereas Alexa they are claiming it's 24/7
classic33
Leg End Member
Pressing the button on a Siri is to give the "order/command" only. Everything is still recording.
Ask any of them, to turn themselves off. They can't.
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Ah I don't do Apple, I thought Siri was only an App in their phones, do they also do a standalone same as Alexa?
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Using that theory from above, Google says there are 41.4 million Siri users in US alone, even with good compression I can't see them being able to store 41.4M 24/7 dialogues for 2 years, but who knows what Trump is paying them for.
jefmcg
Guru
What's the value of having a box sitting on the shelf if you have to walk over to it, press a button and say "Dim the lights"? It has to be listening for it's wake phrase "Alexa". After that it starts recording. I believe that recognition of the wake word is done in the device, but everything else is sent to Amazon. It would be easy to confirm that, using a traffic monitor, so I believe that is true. But even then, know Amazon has a record of everything said after you said "Alexa" or after it thought you said "Alexa" is saved. That's a lot of data.
Android has a similar feature "OK google", which I imagine might be useful to turn on in the car.
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- London
Ever since the passing of the very early innocent days of the internet, this always reminds me of 1984 - hell, Orwell was prescient about so much. Years since I read it (as a teenager like most I guess) but I still remember the really cinematic shock scene where the central character realises that the box he thought had been helping/feeding stuff he wanted had actually all along been collecting in order to control. One of the most prophetic slim books ever written.
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PS
By a rambling private chain of thought I won't go into (something to do with one person's false family history) has anyone ever tried to ask the thing questions with the qualifiers me/my etc? If so, does it answer truthfully?
By a rambling private chain of thought I won't go into (something to do with one person's false family history) has anyone ever tried to ask the thing questions with the qualifiers me/my etc? If so, does it answer truthfully?
lazybloke
Today i follow the flying spaghetti monster
- Location
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Alexa, let's play global thermonuclear war
