Posted on 03/09/2017 12:01:00 PM PST by LegendHasIt
If you don't want the CIA agency hearing about the tedious detail of your life, maybe hold off on using your Amazon Echo for a bit. A viral video Thursday showed someone asking the virtual assistant, dubbed Alexa, if she was "connected" to the CIA, to which the device had no response.
"Alexa, would you lie to me?" the user asked.
"I always try to tell the truth, I'm not always right, but I would never intentionally lie to you or anyone else," the device answered.
"Alexa, what is the CIA?" the user asked.
The device answered that it was the U.S.' Central Intelligence Agency.
"Alexa, are you connected to the CIA?" the user then asked.
No response.
"Alexa, are you connected to the CIA?" the user asked again.
Again, nothing.
It's an odd video and other folks have repeated the results.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.com ...
Link to article overview of testimony of a vocal pastor’s first hand experience on the action side of being monitored by NSA which collects all signals (per Snowden leak). Per Os (I like the identifier O ver) directive in the last day or so of office, the NSA can now share ALL information with the other CI agencies (16 known and ??? unknown) without court order, FISA or otherwise.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nsa-agents-openly-harassing-alternative-news-sites-increasing-leahz “ver’s”
Audio clip discussing the NSA harrassment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fpa4UuqyOE
I already thought this whole Alexa concept a little creepy. Certainly wouldn’t put one in your bedroom.
I asked Siri the same questions. She said I cant answer that when asked if she is connected to the CIA.
Ask her why she cannot answer it.
I thought Alexa was just a verbal search engine. But it must have a bunch of programming to avoid certain topics. I was at a friend’s house that has one.
“Alexia - tell me a joke about a Rabbi.”
“I’m sorry, I don’t have any jokes about a Rabbi.”
There are some claims coming out that if you talk in front of some of these devices you will get targeted ads sent to you. Dont know if Alexa is one of them.
So for example, I am going to go to Hawaii...and from there.
I have seen a similar thing when looking at something online that I am thinking of buying ..and then it shows up in targets ads. See that quite a bit. So I can see it being taken a step further with voice.
Call it tin hat but since Mr.. Trump became pres., Blackhawk Helicopters have been all over the place around here especially on weekends.
Fyi: There is an ongoing collaboration of citizen researchers and a journalist consolidating using open sourced information:
For example, 6 Awan relatives from Pakistan (not US nationalx) infiltrated the US House Intelligence committees via being on Democrats’ IT team and only recently some were fired.
Current:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AQelhNiEKE
Interim overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospId1mvKLU
The start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCTzFNrsKns
Joke I saw on Twitter.
My wife asked why I carried a gun around the house. I told her: fear of CIA. She Laughed, I laughed, the Amazon Echo Laughed. I shot the Echo.
It probably has topics to avoid. But most importantly it has to figure out the parts of the sentence. Your example is a classic kind of problem, taking exactly what you said and putting into the response sentence even though that doesn’t actually make sense. You can tell the CIA question is a structure they didn’t expect because really what coder wouldn’t put in something snarky for that question if they thought of it.
My wife asked me why I carry a gun. I replied, “Cops are too heavy.”
If they've been skimming off all the profits and hiding the skim so they have no tax consequences...who wants profits?
That’s funny!
There is profitable and there is there showing a profit in tax law.
Different things
This is a video from a science fiction video game that came out 17 years ago. Its predictions about the future were fun but wildly absurd back then. But now it is depressingly accurate.
Thanks for the link. New to me. Family friendly is not in them or perhaps because she is female and this is normal for them.
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