According to the Wall Street Journal, one Echo owner “was sitting on her bed crying one day after having just quit her job, listening to music, when she said she heard a voice tell her, ‘It’s going to be OK.'”
“The words might have been comforting had she not heard them from Alexa — Amazon.com Inc.’s voice assistant which powers the Echo Dot speaker on her nightstand,” the Journal declared.
The device’s owner reportedly became so scared by the incident that she unplugged it and placed it in a drawer for several days, and it’s not the only spooky incident to have happened surrounding Silicon Valley’s A.I. assistants.
“They are also sometimes freaking people out, seeming to drop into conversations uninvited, playing music unprompted in the middle of the night, turning on other gadgets at random and acting generally, well, possessed,” the Wall Street Journal explained, adding that a Google Home Mini recently reminded its owner of a “cocaine and reefer” event at 1 p.m.
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Thank you, Dave, for a very enjoyable game."
And yet you all think technology and all of this robot and AI is the best thing since sliced bread... You people have no idea how this can bring humanity down with AI, and no this is not some conspiracy theorist, this is fact... Sure its cook to be able to controls things with you phone, and to have AI figure stuff out for you, but you don't know the consequences of having a device be able to do anything it pleases and we can't control it... All you have to do is watch eagle eye and you will see what I mean... The AI took it upon itself, to kill people it though was a threat to the us constitution and took actions to take them out... FB and others already had to shutdown their AI at times becasue it would do what it wanted and override what the programmers wanted or tried to make it do... It also found a way to make a communication link with other devices, and to transfer itself to other places to make sure it would survive becasue it predicted that we would try to shut it down, and it wanted to stop that... You won't hear about this in the media, nor anywhere else...
I don't plan to ever have one of these gadgets in my home.
Dark in mom’s basement is it?
Ours let out a shrill laugh in the middle of the night and scares us all to death - it was sold with 24 hrs......
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Do you have a smart phone? If so, you have a gadget that listens to you.
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