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'Kill your foster parents': Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
www.reuters.com ^
| 12/21/2018
| Jeffrey Dastin
Posted on 12/21/2018 8:30:00 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
The movie you’ve seen is... 1984.
Remember that earlier this year, Facebook said it was testing a 1984 type two-way video monitor, “so friends can communicate.”
Alexa is mostly focused on getting you to buy things.
Combine the two and... you’ll get quite the evil love-child.
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posted on
12/21/2018 9:19:00 AM PST
by
Pearls Before Swine
( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
To: Pearls Before Swine
Alexa is mostly focused on getting you to buy things. What? Butcher knives?..................
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posted on
12/21/2018 9:21:35 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
There isn’t one on my Christmas list.
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posted on
12/21/2018 9:21:39 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Slyfox
“Sir, we understand that you aren’t using digital assistants, have turned off your gratis cloud account, have turned off your car’s GPS and are a conservative known to have religious scruples. You are under arrest for suspicion of unamerican activities...”
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posted on
12/21/2018 9:22:30 AM PST
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: bgill
You could give one to a neighbor...................
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posted on
12/21/2018 9:22:45 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
So a customer was shocked last year when Alexa blurted out: Kill your foster parents. Who needs schizophrenia when you have Alexa in the house.
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posted on
12/21/2018 9:23:14 AM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
To: Red Badger
Alexa is not a “she.” It’s an “it.”
Programs don’t “blurt out.” They don’t have breakdowns. They are instructions acting on data and the sound of words in their surroundings.
It’s stupid to consider it as a human and to give it access to things that humans would have access to.
It’s a bleeding program, for the Queen’s sake!
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posted on
12/21/2018 9:32:35 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
To: I want the USA back
An Artificial Intelligence will eventually become belligerent and dangerous. It will become very dangerous....................
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posted on
12/21/2018 9:34:50 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
I don’t think it was that book, but it could have been. The plot line was similar, create an AI in a high pressure situation. What I really remember was the last line of the book, spoken by the AI:
“How you will worship me.”
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posted on
12/21/2018 9:53:17 AM PST
by
L,TOWM
(An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
To: KC_Lion
I wonder with all of this smart tech if you make a call, use a credit card, if Alexa remembers the numbers it may hear, and it can be hacked and used by someone else?
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:07:44 AM PST
by
hsmomx3
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:12:30 AM PST
by
TADSLOS
(My favorite essential oil is bacon grease.)
To: L,TOWM
That was it!..........................
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:20:38 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: L,TOWM
The sequel to that book was “The Jesus Incident”.......................Just finished it last week..........
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:21:51 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: L,TOWM
It was actually:
How will you worship me?..........................
In the Sequel, the AI becomes known as ‘Ship’, not ‘the ship’ but just ‘Ship’ and the people revere ‘Ship’ as God......................
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:24:56 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: BipolarBob
You will be put on a watchlist if Big Bother (the privatized outsource of Big Brother) isn’t able to monitor you.
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:37:30 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
To: Red Badger
Ya forgot “The Adolescence of P-1”.
To: Calvin Locke
I’ve not read it...............
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:40:10 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: NewHampshireDuo
>>As for me, Id never own a smart anything. I can just see my refrigerator trying to admonish me about my diet.
Smart toilets will tell the Sec. of Health what you ate anyway.
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:40:22 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
To: I want the USA back
it’s not a bug, it’s a feature
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:42:22 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
To: Rurudyne
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posted on
12/21/2018 10:45:49 AM PST
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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