{"id":8078,"date":"2018-03-08T19:37:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T18:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:26:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:26:34","slug":"takeaways-from-an-ai-assistant-laughing-on-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2018\/03\/takeaways-from-an-ai-assistant-laughing-on-its-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Takeaways from an AI Assistant Laughing on Its Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>C1 &#8211; Advanced<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some users have been creeped out by Alexa suddenly talking and laughing without being prompted any commands. Alexa is Amazon&#8217;s virtual AI assistant.<\/p>\n<p>After some incidents were reported, Amazon immediately set out to find ways to prevent this from happening again in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on this news and take a look at some takeaways we can get from this whole fiasco. Click on the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ai-assistant-amazon-alexa-laugh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/ai-assistant-amazon-alexa-laugh\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. What do you think about this problem with Alexa?<br \/>\n2. Would you feel scared too if you heard your AI assistant performing tasks unprompted?<br \/>\n3. Do you use AI assistants? Why or why not?<br \/>\n4. Is it possible for robots to be smarter than how they were programmed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C1 &#8211; Advanced Some users have been creeped out by Alexa suddenly talking and laughing without being prompted any commands. Alexa is Amazon&#8217;s virtual AI assistant. After some incidents were reported, Amazon immediately set out to find ways to prevent this from happening again in the future. 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