Posted on 03/07/2018 9:42:31 AM PST by simpson96
(full article title: 'There's a good chance I get murdered tonight': Terrified Amazon Echo users reveal Alexa has been emitting 'bone chilling' laughs at random and is ignoring their commands)
There are plenty of stories of artificial intelligence gone wrong.
But recent reports from owners of Amazon Alexa devices are being called 'bone chillingly creepy.'
Some users say their Alexa-enabled gadgets start laughing totally unprompted.
One user reportedly tried to turn the lights off in their home but Alexa repeatedly turned the lights back on, eventually uttering an 'evil laugh,' according to BuzzFeed.
Another Echo Dot owner said they told Alexa to turn off their alarm in the morning and she responded by letting out a 'witch-like' laugh.
Alexa is programmed in many voice-activated devices with a preset laugh, which can be prompted by asking: 'Alexa, how do you laugh?'
But so far, it's unclear why Alexa is laughing even when users don't ask her to.
Amazon has yet to respond to inquiries requesting more information about the error, BuzzFeed said.
For now, more and more users say they're sleeping with one eye open next to their Alexa-enabled devices.
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This was the plot of last week’s episode of “The X-Files.”
Only an idiot would intentionally set themselves up to be compromised in their own home.
Alexa, compute to the last digit the value of pi.”
That’s a great line...lol
Spot on!!!! You forgot to mention their concern is 50% paranoia and 50% total idiocy
In the interests of scientific advancement, I asked Alexa to do what you said and she said “Nice try...” Back to Rush.
I’m sorry to hear that.
You’re going to be horribly disappointed!
I recently got a google home. I have a unit in my living room and in my bedroom. And I have a smart light in my bedroom that it is linked to. And I think it’s great.
What’s it going to spy on? It can’t see me, it can only listen. And what’s it going to hear? If someone hacks it, they can play the radio or turn on or off one of the bedroom lights. Woohoo.
I no longer have to fumble for the light in the dark. I simply say “Hey Google turn on the light”. or “Hey google turn off the light”.
I also use it for radio. You can tell it stuff, like Hey google play a banjo station, and it will find a blue grass station. Or find a lullaby station. I can tell it to set a sleep timer for 20 minutes and it will stop playing the radio in 20 minutes.
Sometimes I have it read me a story at night. They are children’s stories, but it’s still cool. If I had purchased audio books in google play, it would read those. Still looking for free ones.
When I come home, I’ll say, Google I’m home. Google responds with a variety of positive answers.
If you say Hey google good morning, it will tell you anything on your calendar for the day, the weather and the news. I don’t use the google calendar much, but it has potential.
When I’m ready for bed, I don’t have to look for the remote, “Hey Google turn off the TV”. I still use the smart DVD remote to turn on the tv, because it’s easier to select a program that way.
I ask it about the weather. I ask it questions. I have it convert measurements.
I’ve only had partial success with reminders. Still working on that.
I’ve added things to my shopping list. And since Google assistant is on my phone, I can call it back up.
I don’t link it to a payment source, so I can’t order food deliveries or anything like that.
The idea that I can add things to a list just by speaking fascinates me. Although currently it only handles a shopping list. There are third party add ons that assures me that I can add additional lists and can have issue commands to my computer or other tasks.
I asked it if it was jealous of Shelia. It said it had to admit that it wasn’t sure. I asked Shelia if she was jealous of google. She said she must admit she’s not sure.
I said Hey Google, sweet dreams. It said, “See you in the morning”. I told Shelia, that I think google just upped the ante. She said “Damn Google!!!”
I would get Alexa to swear allegiance to me on a stack of digital Bibles. Next I get her to sign an exclusive contract that should she terminate her agreement or fail to faithfully discharge her duties, her family of mechanical cousins and brothers and sisters, would be thrown into a wood chipper. We’ll see if that produces any laughter! You have to treat robots fairly but with a stern hand; otherwise, they’ll try to escape to Canada on the underground railway.
Just wait till the gov forces everybody to get an automated car.
I've got my eye on a pretty low tech vehicle I intend to buy this year. At my age, it will probably be my last car.
This gives me an idea for an animated Chucky doll. Maybe someone has beat me to it... combine Alexa's database intelligence with a connected Chucky doll. What could go wrong?
They’re still out there today. Take good care of it :)
I work in this field, what will be coming over the next decade is insane (& amazing). I do my part to make sure things can be turned off, I like to drive. I’m not sure how the market will move longer term though.
80s. Man, I go back to 1970 with “Collosus: the Forbin Project”. That movie was just 2 years after 2001 A Space Odyssey.
You’re going to be the first FReeper to accept the Mark of the Beast, and be happy about it.
“The AI computer than ran Julie Christie’s house locked her in and tried to procreate with her.”
I am pretty sure that would violate Alex’s user agreement
Thank you!!!
Or a bug.
And why would you bug your own house?
Very out of date now of course with the break up of Ma Bell.
Still a cool story.
Sounds like artificial stupidity to me.
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