Posted on 03/07/2018 9:42:31 AM PST by simpson96
(full article title: 'There's a good chance I get murdered tonight': Terrified Amazon Echo users reveal Alexa has been emitting 'bone chilling' laughs at random and is ignoring their commands)
There are plenty of stories of artificial intelligence gone wrong.
But recent reports from owners of Amazon Alexa devices are being called 'bone chillingly creepy.'
Some users say their Alexa-enabled gadgets start laughing totally unprompted.
One user reportedly tried to turn the lights off in their home but Alexa repeatedly turned the lights back on, eventually uttering an 'evil laugh,' according to BuzzFeed.
Another Echo Dot owner said they told Alexa to turn off their alarm in the morning and she responded by letting out a 'witch-like' laugh.
Alexa is programmed in many voice-activated devices with a preset laugh, which can be prompted by asking: 'Alexa, how do you laugh?'
But so far, it's unclear why Alexa is laughing even when users don't ask her to.
Amazon has yet to respond to inquiries requesting more information about the error, BuzzFeed said.
For now, more and more users say they're sleeping with one eye open next to their Alexa-enabled devices.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Only a complete fool would voluntarily purchase a contraption whose sole purpose is to have some artificial intelligence spy on you.
Alexa. What’s the number of the nearest priest dealing with demonic possession?
and has control of many of the functions of the home. I bet these aren't too hard to hack into.
This generation of Brits are easily terrified. The Blitz would have killed them even if they weren’t hit by a bomb.
lol
My sister was bit by a moose!
"I don't know, Dave. Why would you ask?"
My immediate reaction would be that the device is compromised and that there’s a “somebody” on the other end having a warped bit of fun at my expense.
I’ll use Siri on my desktop Mac and my phone, but I don’t laugh at people who cover the camera lens anymore.
No way would I turn my household functions and normal conversation over to such a device.
Greg Gutfeld will get a kick out of this. He’s obsessed with A.I.
And THAT, my friends, is how Skynet became Self-Aware and the Terminator came into being...
THAT would make Picard scream there are five lights!!
Hey WIRETAP!!!!!!!!
Stop laughing me!
I am not an idiot bringing you into my home.
Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti...
Russians. Or Democrats.
Dave’s not here
How to fix the problem.
“Alexa, compute to the last digit the value of pi.”
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