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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My LEO son-in-law absolutely FREAKS if one of these type devices is near him!
Especially if it has a camera, too.
bingo
Just wait!
I just got a notice from my tv provider that as of September, they'll be dropping that service, and offering streaming only.
So many have cut the cord that tv business will no longer be profitable for them.
You think your tv watches you now?
I think tech is overused, destroying the quality of experiencing the here and now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(Star_Trek%3A_The_Next_Generation)
If it has a speaker, then it has a mike.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=using+speaker+for+microphone&ia=web
what number iphone?
but you FEEL so much safer!
How come I keep having to look this stuff up?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=create+custom+answers+that+Alexa+will+supply&ia=web
iPhone SE.
"The telescreen recieved and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. |
This was 73 years ago...
Just tell him, "Someday you might."
My 2020 Grand Cherokee knows my routine in the morning and will tell me how long it’ll take to get to my destination.
How it does this, I have NO idea!
It also tells my I6 phone where it is parked in the large lot at the mall.
EVERYTHING can be used in some way that is harmful!
I find FR bickering annoying.
(Unless I am one of the parties to it.)
This kinda describes mine now...
I can’t do that.
Ironically I am looking at a 13 model phone mostly for the camera.
If I do, I will most likely sell my GH4 and lenses plus a few lights. It’s been months since I powered any of them.
99 percent of what I do is for me and no one else would be interested.
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