Posted on 08/16/2018 5:44:06 AM PDT by C19fan
The first college or university in the nation is installing Alexa-enabled Amazon Echo Dots in every single dorm room across campus.
St. Louis University, a private four-year university in Missouri’s capital city, unveiled a plan to install 2,300 intelligent assistant-enabled Echo Dots in residence halls and student apartments before classes begin later this month. The Alexa-enabled Echo Dots will be programmed to answer over 100 specific questions about the campus and student activities, such as the hours for the library or a list of upcoming public lectures.
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Planting listening devices in everyone’s rooms is bad.
“...Missouri’s capitol city?”
Also, conditioning young people to rely on computers rather than learn things on their own. Computer-reliance, not self-reliance.
You can burn the entire campus down by asking Alexa to “..play Alex Jones podcast”
or ask it what gender it is.
It would be fun to hang around by one and say, “so, we’ll plant the bomb under those bushes over there and use your trakfone to detonate. How about 9:00 tonight?
All the time wearing groucho glasses.
Hey, it’s a private conversation and we were just discussing the plot for our new book.
Alexa, where can I find the nearest men's room?
Looking for a men's room is a gender crime. I'm reporting you to the student revolutionary court for prosecution. You will be informed of the verdict after the trial is done.
Alexa, where can I find the nearest men’s room?
Looking for a men’s room is a gender crime. I’m reporting you to the student revolutionary court for prosecution. You will be informed of the verdict after the trial is done.
I’m a trans.
Down the hall, on your right
Some day these Alexas will spout commie propaganda all day long and you won’t be able to shut it off. Programed by the dem party.
Ask Alexa if there is a Creator and if not how did those pieces randomly come together?
Sounds like lines from a play about Obama’s role model Bill Ayers.
Alternate Title: University installing listening devices across all dorm rooms: Get caught talking Pro-Trump, get expelled?
They’ll be nearly indestructible like the radio’s in Prisoner’s village.
One episode he smashed one to pieces and it kept playing.
Maybe they can all ask Alexa “what is the capitol of Missouri?”
What the hell is a Billiken?
2+2=5
KYPD
A male Milliken.
Not very secure and very unwise.
It might make any future rape accusations - real or made-up - much more interesting in the investigations.
No expectation of privacy in a your dorm room, I suppose.
I worked at a well-heeled private university for a dozen years. I had 1 (ONE) student’s parents contact me about turning the wireless access point off that was in the kids room. I told the parents I would discuss it with the student, and let them make the choice. If I turned it off, the area in that dorm would lose all wireless connectivity, as the building was 80+ years old, and very solidly built. The student’s concern was the light on the AP. So, I compromised, and turned the LED out. VOILA! The parents think the AP is off, the student doesn’t have the light blazing away all night long, and the neighboring students don’t lose wireless connectivity.
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