You’re teaching Alexa to be an asshole

2019-3-17 10:30

“Shut up, Siri!” “Screw off, Alexa!” We’ve all heard people berating their voice assistants, often in colorful terms. You’ve probably done it yourself, and so what? It’s not like our voice assistant has feelings — “she” is just a collection of code and a disembodied, robotic voice.

Or so the conventional thinking goes. I’m here to tell you that thinking is wrong, and if you don’t want the Terminators hunting your grandchildren down in a dystopian future, start being nicer to Alexa today. Tech titans’ take Okay, I’m half-joking about the Terminators. But the point I’m making about the way…

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2018-9-25 14:51	Syndication
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