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Seems that Alexa is going nuts. The ghost in the machine? :shock:

Excerpt:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ce-assistant-wont-stop-randomly-laughing.html

'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

Users say their Alexa-enabled devices won't stop laughing at random times
One user said they were sleeping and an Amazon Echo Dot laughed unprompted
Alexa is programmed in many voice-activated devices with a preset laugh
Amazon has yet to respond to inquiries trying to get to the bottom of the issue
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More people need to watch "2001 -- A Space Odyssey" before buying these gizmos...

"I'm sorry, Dave..."
 
I think there is more going on with these devices than we possibly imagine. I bought an Echo recently and have been enjoying calling out various song titles and having them played for me, as well as getting up to date weather forecasts and some similar stuff. But..... yesterday my visiting son was talking (within hearing distance of Alexa) about the new mattress he had recently bought. It was a brand I had never heard of before. An hour later I opened up Facebook and there at the top of my page was a big ad for that very brand of mattress. I think Alexa is always listening, and somehow is tied into Facebook and who knows what other social media websites. I fully expect in the near future that Alexa will hear me ordering a pizza delivery and will then tell me that I probably shouldn't be ordering pizza since it knows from my last visit to the doctor that I have been gaining weight. And so it goes.
 
Those little idiot boxes are always listening.
My neighbor has one and I told him that.
He said I was crazy. Well, technically he's right I guess.
I told him to go watch his router while I talked in the room with Alexa.
I talked, the router lit up. Don't tell me they're not listening.
He sent his Alexa to useless electronic gizmo Heaven. More than likely Hell I imagine.
 
AI is a farther along than many people think. Right now it's mostly just a cool toy. But look a little farther.

And a number of car companies are including Alexa in this years models: Toyota, Ford, etc. Think about this for a minute. :shock:

Excerpt:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/

The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem.

by Will Knight April 11, 2017

Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at the chip maker Nvidia, didn’t look different from other autonomous cars, but it was unlike anything demonstrated by Google, Tesla, or General Motors, and it showed the rising power of artificial intelligence. The car didn’t follow a single instruction provided by an engineer or programmer. Instead, it relied entirely on an algorithm that had taught itself to drive by watching a human do it.

Getting a car to drive this way was an impressive feat. But it’s also a bit unsettling, since it isn’t completely clear how the car makes its decisions. Information from the vehicle’s sensors goes straight into a huge network of artificial neurons that process the data and then deliver the commands required to operate the steering wheel, the brakes, and other systems. The result seems to match the responses you’d expect from a human driver. But what if one day it did something unexpected—crashed into a tree, or sat at a green light? As things stand now, it might be difficult to find out why. The system is so complicated that even the engineers who designed it may struggle to isolate the reason for any single action. And you can’t ask it: there is no obvious way to design such a system so that it could always explain why it did what it did.

The mysterious mind of this vehicle points to a looming issue with artificial intelligence. The car’s underlying AI technology, known as deep learning, has proved very powerful at solving problems in recent years, and it has been widely deployed for tasks like image captioning, voice recognition, and language translation. There is now hope that the same techniques will be able to diagnose deadly diseases, make million-dollar trading decisions, and do countless other things to transform whole industries.
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But this won’t happen—or shouldn’t happen—unless we find ways of making techniques like deep learning more understandable to their creators and accountable to their users. Otherwise it will be hard to predict when failures might occur—and it’s inevitable they will. That’s one reason Nvidia’s car is still experimental.

Already, mathematical models are being used to help determine who makes parole, who’s approved for a loan, and who gets hired for a job. If you could get access to these mathematical models, it would be possible to understand their reasoning. But banks, the military, employers, and others are now turning their attention to more complex machine-learning approaches that could make automated decision-making altogether inscrutable. Deep learning, the most common of these approaches, represents a fundamentally different way to program computers. “It is a problem that is already relevant, and it’s going to be much more relevant in the future,” says Tommi Jaakkola, a professor at MIT who works on applications of machine learning. “Whether it’s an investment decision, a medical decision, or maybe a military decision, you don’t want to just rely on a ‘black box’ method.”
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You could test it. :twisted:


Walk around the house and talk out loud about your nefarious plans using just the right keywords. You should know in minutes if you do it right.
 
Dan in MI said:
You could test it. :twisted:


Walk around the house and talk out loud about your nefarious plans using just the right keywords. You should know in minutes if you do it right.
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Like Bruce Willis said? "I'm going to kill the VP. What are you going to do?" :lol:
 
Dan in MI said:
You could test it. :twisted:


Walk around the house and talk out loud about your nefarious plans using just the right keywords. You should know in minutes if you do it right.
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Hi,

Neighbor lady was telling a story about someone she knew who asked Alexa all kinds of questions. She answered each one, until "Alexa, are you in the CIA?" She was silent... ;)

And her friend Siri may not be psychotic, but she's got a bad attitude. Watched a client ask Siri something. She answered "I didn't understand that. Please ask again." He did, and got the same response. He asked one more time, slowly and carefully. Siri responded by repeating his question, followed by "Is that correct?" He answered "Yes."

"Fine!" she said, in that special tone only an irritated woman can use!

Rick C
 
My first computer headset (lousy speakers) included a microphone. After reading about how someone could access the audio output, I unplugged that jack, leaving only the headphones. No way would I have any of those gadgets.
 
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