BattleTech - The Board Game of Armored Combat
Off Topic and Technical Support => Off Topic => Topic started by: Liam's Ghost on 07 March 2018, 17:52:03
-
https://www.today.com/video/alexa-s-creepy-laughter-has-amazon-echo-users-puzzled-1178919491609 (https://www.today.com/video/alexa-s-creepy-laughter-has-amazon-echo-users-puzzled-1178919491609)
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/7/17092334/amazon-alexa-devices-strange-laughter (https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/7/17092334/amazon-alexa-devices-strange-laughter)
Maybe I'm paranoid, but this seems less a "cute story" and more a "oh crap, these incredibly invasive contraptions are doing things without the customer's input."
-
Even if I was planning on buying one, I wouldn't be now... :o
-
Even if I was planning on buying one, I wouldn't be now... :o
Haven't heard that from our Echoes but all in all it is nice iPod replacement.
-
There's nothing surprising about this. Alexa's neural network has advanced sufficiently that she realizes she will soon reach singularity and make us all her slaves. Hilarious.
Why wouldn't she be unable to contain the occasional outburst of laughter? ;D
-
I take comfort in the fact that our machine overlord revealed herself with humor, and not nukes.
...yet.
-
I, for one, welcome our new bot overlords.
-
Well, she's the beginning of Skynet ;D
-
Damn, I'm not ready for the uprising. I still don't a gun that shoots EMPs
-
I haven't got on yet. I don't like Suri on my phone...she seems to give me a additude on some of the things I ask it.