What good is Alexa.

[Ming the Merciless]

Don't have one in the bedroom, apparently it has been recording couples having sex then sent it to people (they know) in their contacts.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Don't have one in the bedroom, apparently it has been recording couples having sex then sent it to people (they know) in their contacts.

Wouldn't matter at our house!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Wouldn't matter at our house!

We know

 

[Deleted member 26715]

We know

Damn I thought I'd removed your email address

 

[classic33]

Damn I thought I'd removed your email address

They forget nothing though.

 

[Blue Hills]

Alexa seems to be for people who:

1. Can't be bothered to turn lights etc on & off by themselves. Instead, spend dosh on a box of tricks to do it for you.
2. Can't be bothered to decide on which music to listen to, let alone put a CD (sooo 20th century!!) on.
3. Can't be bothered to do very much, rather ask a box to do it.
4. Like the novelty of talking to a box.

While I can see the potential it has to assist the elderly, infirm or disabled, FFS people - do you really need this thing to write a shopping list?.

Or folk who maybe feel a bit weak/inneffectual and want the feeling of controlling something, even if it's only a box. I well remember reading some blurb or review in a gaming mag I scanned once - talking about, suppossedly, a joystick, it rattled on and on about it bending/responding to your every touch - not too hard to figure out what that meant to a readership of teenage boys.
Of course the thing with control games is that the supposedly controlled/dommed can end up controlling - see above - 1984.

 

[Blue Hills]

Received this via Imperial College.

https://mailchi.mp/fe0009f5755c/other-stories-about-technologies-workshop-166217?e=[UNIQID]

more info if you read down:

>> In this workshop we’ll explore the gendering of personal intelligent assistants

As folk may have gathered I won't be getting one no matter what gender it thinks it is or what battles it wants to fight.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Amazon Echo available for £15.98 IF you remember to cancel within the first month https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=16485299031