Posted on 12/28/2021 1:09:32 PM PST by yesthatjallen
An Amazon Echo owner was left shocked after Alexa proposed a dangerous challenge to her ten-year-old daughter.
AI-powered virtual assistants like Alexa that power smart devices and speakers such as Echo, Echo Dot, and Amazon Tap, come with a plethora of capabilities. These include enabling the users to play simple verbal games or request "challenges" on demand.
A 'shocking' challenge
When sitting idle, such as during the holidays, it wouldn't be unusual for an Amazon Echo owner to ask Alexa, "tell me a challenge to do."
Typically such an auditory request has the AI prompting the user with a quiz question or a similar brainstorming activity.
"The challenge is simple," said Alexa. "Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs."
"I was right there and yelled, 'No, Alexa, no!' like it was a dog," said Livdahl, a writer and a worried mother.
"My daughter says she is too smart to do something like that anyway."
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“Any parent exposing their 10 year old kid to an Alexa needs to have CPS called.”
Why?
Next you are going to mention "Felix the Cat" the wonderful wonderful cat..That my older sister hated!!! HAHA!!!
“no Nest, no Alexa, no Ring, just my HP box running Win-7 Pro x64”
Which by logging on here reveals your identity to the site and to the government.
“Any parent exposing their 10 year old kid to an Alexa needs to have CPS called.”
Interesting ...
I never took you for a nanny-state supporter!
No comment on how I do it, anonymously.
Pandora does
You never go out without your wife?
Never said that. I said we go to the store (grocery) together. If I’m going out alone it’s for something I need. She’s grown up and has her own car as well... she needs something she can go to the store as well. It’s what adults do.
Talk to your gadgets, your choice.
I just refuse to use that shxt and I don’t keep a cellphone glued to my ass. When friends ask if I got the text they sent, I say probably. They know enough to call on the land line if I don’t answer the cell.
Nothing to hide indeed. Our own government is slowly but steadily turning against us.
“She’s grown up and has her own car as well... she needs something she can go to the store as well. It’s what adults do.”
Married adults gladly help their spouses.
I go to stores several times week for my wife. If I otherwise go out, I ask if she needs anything picked up.
It is what LOVING adults do.
“When friends ask if I got the text they sent, I say probably.”
Do they call you a friend?
“I never took you for a nanny-state supporter!”
Generally not, but when a parent is outright ABUSING a child, I do support CPS intervention. Exposing the child to Alexa is nearly as bad as sending the kid to public school - both worthy of at least an investigation as to the motive of the parent.
“Never said that.”
Never said you did. I was asking if you did.
The Internet is not passive.
“Generally not, but when a parent is outright ABUSING a child, I do support CPS intervention. “
That is an opinion, not fact. Would you support your neighbor calling CPS because, in their opinion, exposing a child to conservative ideas is abuse?
“Generally not, but when a parent is outright ABUSING a child, I do support CPS intervention. Exposing the child to Alexa is nearly as bad as sending the kid to public school - both worthy of at least an investigation as to the motive of the parent.”
How many such cases of ‘abuse’ are you personally aware of?
How many times have you called CPS versus how many times have you been a silent enabler of those ‘abuses’?
Hahahaha...my wife teases me when I use Siri when she answers me in the feminine voice! (There is smirking and good-natured eye-rolling there sometimes...:)
Bwaaaaahahhaaaaahahaaaaa! What a rush...I have not seen that in decades, and as soon as I saw that...it all came back! Thanks...:)
See in an adult household if I’m going out I do ask if she needs anything. 9 out of 10 times we go together so I don’t need a cell phone. Same if she goes out.
Point being is I don’t need a cell phone glued to my ass or have conversations with pieces of equipment laying around my house.
My friends don’t call me friend, they call me brother because we served together and they know I would do anything for them anytime and vice versa and we stay in touch all the time.
Other people are just that, other people.
Ah...I know exactly what you are talking about there-I have seen that exercise, and I cannot remember who did it.
It might have been John Cleese doing that, taking some banal piece of text or an ad out of a newspaper, and while reading it, doing exactly as you described, raising and lowering his voice, putting accents in all the right (wrong) places, but...what really made it was his facial expressions as he did so! The eyebrows and all...
Ha! I have not seen it in years..myself!!
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