What good is Alexa.

[Salty seadog]

FTFY

</nerd>

I thought it might have been as I was writing it.

 

[mikeymustard]

Actually you can just say, Alexa time, the machine then tells you the answer.

What happens if you say hammer time?
Has alexa got the time on a piece of paper?

View: https://youtu.be/-tjHlFPTwVk

 

[Edwardoka]

Actually you can just say, Alexa time, the machine then tells you the answer.

Apologies, my mistake. I did think that it would be a compromise too far to have an energy beam that annihilates all non-Amazon-approved matter installed in your house in exchange for being told the time.

Instead it's only a listening post that reports to a multi-billion dollar company and its AI.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I asked Alexa to take her top off. She just ignored me.

 

[jefmcg]

I thought it might have been as I was writing it.

I'm a 2001 nerd from birth. In my family, we had a few markers of development. The two I can remember now were: a wrist watch for you 10th birthday, and 2001, A Space Odyssey when you turned 12.

On the upside, when I tell my personal assistant to Open the pod bay doors, she now says I'm afraid I can't do that.

 

[Salty seadog]

FTFY

</nerd>

I'm a 2001 nerd from birth. In my family, we had a few markers of development. The two I can remember now were: a wrist watch for you 10th birthday, and 2001, A Space Odyssey when you turned 12.

On the upside, when I tell my personal assistant to Open the pod bay doors, she now says I'm afraid I can't do that.

This is pretty neat.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Nobody fart or sneeze, you are surrounded.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/14/smart_speakers_to_listen_for_yawns_farts_and_coughs/

 

[perplexed]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46637427

Audio files been sent from someone's Alexa by a stranger...

 

[screenman]

The temptation to say Alexa alarm 5am whilst in my brothers house the other day was almost too much. He does not get up until at least 10am normally, I may not have as much will power next time.

 

[HLaB]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGXJqAJEQJU

 

[Rezillo]

Well, this is more than a little disconcerting:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/20/amazon_alexa_recordings_stranger/

Bad enough that Amazon sent recordings to someone who didn't actually own an Alexa but then there was this:

"Heise....was able to quickly track down the bloke actually speaking, and the name of his girlfriend, thanks to the details on the recordings. Which is, let's be honest, not exactly comforting. It also means Alexa is keeping a recording of all your queries."

 

[jefmcg]

So much fun....
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/mbynnx/amazons-alexa-told-someone-to-kill-your-foster-parents
"Amazon Echo recorded an Oregon couple talking about hardwood floors, and then randomly sent that conversation to someone in their contacts."

And it's learning small talk from random places on the internet, like reddit so one speaker said, apropos nothing "Kill your foster parents"

 

[mikeymustard]

So much fun....
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/mbynnx/amazons-alexa-told-someone-to-kill-your-foster-parents
"Amazon Echo recorded an Oregon couple talking about hardwood floors, and then randomly sent that conversation to someone in their contacts."

And it's learning small talk from random places on the internet, like reddit so one speaker said, apropos nothing "Kill your foster parents"

we are already living in a distopian future! good job I haven't got one then; if it repeated what I say about my mother there'd be uproar, like hiding the parrot when the vicar calls

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Also now reported that the Chinese have managed to hack into at least one Alexa chatbot and extract the conversations.

 

[Blue Hills]

http://self.gutenberg.org/wplbn0000627598-the-machine-stops-by-forster-e-m-.aspx?