Yet another reason why I don’t own a smartphone or tablet. Alexa, Amazon’s artificial intelligence-based personal assistant, has been laughing at her masters, and it is creeping them out. According to Amazon, it just a voice recognition flaw, but when Alexa laughs maniacally in the middle of the night, it seems more like the prequel to “I Robot.”The software that drives Alexa, that turns on lights, starts espresso machines, and makes her laugh, is driven by a [...]
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