Posted on 09/15/2019 8:24:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Amazon is introducing its new "Alexa Answers" program, which will let anyone provide answers to questions Alexa can't answer.
Users can sign up to answer questions and earn "points" each time Alexa shares on of their answers. Users can browse questions that Alexa doesn't have answers for to find ones that match their areas of expertise.
According to Fast Company, Amazon will employ human editors as well as use algorithms to vet the user answers. Users can also up vote and down vote answers to help editors weed out erroneous answers. The system is reminiscent of Yahoo Answers or Quora, websites that also had real people answer questions from the community.
Users don't need to provide citations for their answers, so when Alexa serves a user generated answer, it will say "according to an Amazon customer." It will be difficult for users to determine where the information for user-generated answers come from.
“We’re leaning into [sic] the positive energy and good faith of the contributors, and we use machine learning and algorithms to weed out the noisy few, the bad few,”
(Excerpt) Read more at kare11.com ...
I don’t see any positive upside to this idiotic idea.
Really dumb.
[ Amazon is introducing its new “Alexa Answers” program, which will let anyone provide answers to questions Alexa can’t answer. ]
And here is how it will go. Some of it is already happening.
Q: “Alexa, how does one find true joy, happiness and contentment?”
A: “True joy, happiness and contentment can only be found by being Democrat.”
Q: “Alexa, what is Islam?”
A: “Islam was founded by the great prophet Mohamed who must never be insulted according to the great prophet Barack”.
Q: “Alexa, who was Jesus Christ?”
A: “Jesus Christ is a mythical figure from ancient times in a widely-discredited work of fiction called ‘the Bible’”.
[I don’t see any positive upside to this idiotic idea.]
I’m sure we can all trust Jeff Bezos’ disciples to give us centered truth.
Oops, gotta go. The guy from Nigeria is calling. He’s gonna give me $35 million dollars! I gotta give him my bank routing number, account number, social security number and my birth date.
I think he’s legit! He says allah wants me to have this $35 million dollars!
I don’t get any of those answers from Alexa using those questions. I’ve heard the one about Jesus many months ago and it was no more true then than it is now.
It was a joke. Mostly.
I’m sure we can trust Democrats to give proper answers.
Not true eh? Well here’s the one about Jesus. You’re saying this isn’t true? O.K.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MECcIJW67-M
BTW, there’s a bit of “adult language” in that video - as I’m noticing so be forewarned, folks.
I don’t talk to my Alexa or Siri and don’t have Google.
I don’t want my thoughts recorded in some Democrat database.
Probably should yank the cord on any Alexa around. IMHO
I rarely use my cheap phone to search for businesses, hours of operation. It’s Google of course.
Ahem.
I like it because Alexa is pretty damn stupid. But she is good at math.
Just remember. It is Liberals who run Amazon. No more needs to be said.
[Just remember. It is Liberals who run Amazon. No more needs to be said.]
Sssshhhh! We can’t let the world know that liberals have agendas!
Maybe real people have been answering the questions all along - an this is cover.
I would no sooner allow Alexa in my house than I would allow a Stasi member to rent a room from me during the height of the Cold War.
Are people this stupid to bring this snooping device into their house? For WHAT?
Why, in the Wide World of Sports, would anyone purchase a device that allows outside listening/evesdropping?
Apparently, people today have gone completely stupid. If you have a question find the answer yourself.
Why would anyone in their right mind even consider letting one in their home in the first place? Consumerism idiocy I guess.
Posted as "[Substitute Real Name, email, address and known associates] wants advice on treating syphilis which appears from online associates and concurrent search data appears to be from or passed on to [list of names, emails addresses and telephone numbers of suspected liaisons]. He also wants advice on how to keep his wife [name address email and telephone] and neighbors in Chevy Chase Village Section 4 from suspecting."
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