Alexa laughing randomly is this the beginning of the end? Update with amazon’s response

[TidWell]

So Amazon Echo Alexa has been laughing randomly and Amazon has acknowledged that is happening but they don’t know why.

https://www.theverge.com/platform/a...7092334/amazon-alexa-devices-strange-laughter

I aint gonna lie if I were home alone at night and it was super dark and my Amazon Echo randomly laughed id be frozen stiff.

Thats the type of shit that makes you sleep with a gun under your pillow

 

[Morning Star]

Fuck Alexa, that bitch gives me the creeps.

 

[Dogstarman]

Update in op

 

[Winter-John]

I bet that's some C.I.A dudes fucking with them.

 

[KnightTemplar]

It's much worse than you think. Skynet has already created the first Terminator that can almost pass for a human.

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[Organic Damage]

Randomly as in, nothing is happening and nobody is saying shit, and this thing bursts out laughing?

On the garbage pile you go!

 

[DragRacer]

I got an @Lex@ for a Christmas gift in 2016 and threw it right in the trash can.

It wasn't worth the hassle to try and swap it for anything else, but now I regret tossing it because we could have destroyed it in a more provocative way.

If anyone wants to send me theirs , I'll shoot it with a full auto Uzi or a Barrett .50 and post a high res video of its death for all of us to enjoy.

 

[Alphafail]

It's much worse than you think. Skynet has already created the first Terminator that can almost pass for a human.

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[ScarHead]

Ask Alexa for the velocity of an unladen swallow.

American or European

 

[MusterX]

Update in op

A.I. is going to become more and more independent as we go and its going to do odd things and make odd decisions because in the past we programmed machines to do what we needed them to do but A.I., at least true A.I. will have no such limitation.

An artificial intelligence system being developed at Facebook has created its own language. It developed a system of code words to make communication more efficient. Researchers shut the system down when they realized the AI was no longer using English.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-...s-a-language-humans-can-t-read/article/498142

Now one thing is you have to realize these various A.I. programs are already referred to as "agents" I thought that was weird but when you read about agents, that's a reference to A.I. People have no idea what it is that is coming in the near future, none. Here is an article explaining how they are giving A.I. the ability to "imagine."

Google-owned DeepMind has announced an AI agent that is capable of "imagining" things and planning how to complete future tasks. The development brings fully autonomous AI a step closer by addressing one of the major shortcomings of current systems.

Computers are excellent problem solvers that can perform calculations at rates far in excess of the human brain. However, humans retain the upper hand in creativity and imagination. We can reason with ourselves, develop plans and think of abstract concepts that can't be defined. In a blog post this week, DeepMind said it has been able to develop an AI that can "imagine" and "reason about" the future. The company added it has seen "tremendous results" with the system by giving AI agents the ability to interpret their internal simulations. Handing the agent introspection abilities gives it the ability of questioning its own actions, in the same way humans do. This leads directly to the ability to learn strategies and make plans. The result is improved adaptability to new scenarios which can't necessarily be solved using logic alone.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-...plate-the-future/article/498594#ixzz4o3KwAkWA

 

[taurus]

It's laughing at anybody naive enough to have that fucking thing in their home.

This.

"Hey, want to BUY a device that listens to you and your family all the time, from a company that sells stuff, without knowing how your personal information is collected, analyzed and stored, just so you can automate some things you can do/check/perform yourself in mere seconds?"

"Sure, give me 5, one for each room."

 

[Thai Otoshi]

I never once entertained the idea to get one.

It blew some of my friends away, because I've always been the "techy" one. No motherfuckers, it doesn't mean I want to put every random gadget in my home.

 

[MusterX]

I never once entertained the idea to get one.

It blew some of my friends away, because I've always been the "techy" one. No motherfuckers, it doesn't mean I want to put every random gadget in my home.

We'll be putting androids in our homes soon enough, I'm guessing in 20 years or less.

 

[Clear Winner]

A.I. is going to become more and more independent as we go and its going to do odd things and make odd decisions because in the past we programmed machines to do what we needed them to do but A.I., at least true A.I. will have no such limitation.

An artificial intelligence system being developed at Facebook has created its own language. It developed a system of code words to make communication more efficient. Researchers shut the system down when they realized the AI was no longer using English.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-...s-a-language-humans-can-t-read/article/498142

Now one thing is you have to realize these various A.I. programs are already referred to as "agents" I thought that was weird but when you read about agents, that's a reference to A.I. People have no idea what it is that is coming in the near future, none. Here is an article explaining how they are giving A.I. the ability to "imagine."

Google-owned DeepMind has announced an AI agent that is capable of "imagining" things and planning how to complete future tasks. The development brings fully autonomous AI a step closer by addressing one of the major shortcomings of current systems.

Computers are excellent problem solvers that can perform calculations at rates far in excess of the human brain. However, humans retain the upper hand in creativity and imagination. We can reason with ourselves, develop plans and think of abstract concepts that can't be defined. In a blog post this week, DeepMind said it has been able to develop an AI that can "imagine" and "reason about" the future. The company added it has seen "tremendous results" with the system by giving AI agents the ability to interpret their internal simulations. Handing the agent introspection abilities gives it the ability of questioning its own actions, in the same way humans do. This leads directly to the ability to learn strategies and make plans. The result is improved adaptability to new scenarios which can't necessarily be solved using logic alone.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-...plate-the-future/article/498594#ixzz4o3KwAkWA

Just shut down all AI. We've made several movies showing how we have brought about our own demise through AI, yet we're still here fucking around.

I never once entertained the idea to get one.

It blew some of my friends away, because I've always been the "techy" one. No motherfuckers, it doesn't mean I want to put every random gadget in my home.

Same here, but I was bought one for Xmas. I plug it in when the people who bought it come over, but it just freaks me out.

 

[Dogstarman]

A.I. is going to become more and more independent as we go and its going to do odd things and make odd decisions because in the past we programmed machines to do what we needed them to do but A.I., at least true A.I. will have no such limitation.

An artificial intelligence system being developed at Facebook has created its own language. It developed a system of code words to make communication more efficient. Researchers shut the system down when they realized the AI was no longer using English.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-...s-a-language-humans-can-t-read/article/498142

Now one thing is you have to realize these various A.I. programs are already referred to as "agents" I thought that was weird but when you read about agents, that's a reference to A.I. People have no idea what it is that is coming in the near future, none. Here is an article explaining how they are giving A.I. the ability to "imagine."

Google-owned DeepMind has announced an AI agent that is capable of "imagining" things and planning how to complete future tasks. The development brings fully autonomous AI a step closer by addressing one of the major shortcomings of current systems.

Computers are excellent problem solvers that can perform calculations at rates far in excess of the human brain. However, humans retain the upper hand in creativity and imagination. We can reason with ourselves, develop plans and think of abstract concepts that can't be defined. In a blog post this week, DeepMind said it has been able to develop an AI that can "imagine" and "reason about" the future. The company added it has seen "tremendous results" with the system by giving AI agents the ability to interpret their internal simulations. Handing the agent introspection abilities gives it the ability of questioning its own actions, in the same way humans do. This leads directly to the ability to learn strategies and make plans. The result is improved adaptability to new scenarios which can't necessarily be solved using logic alone.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-...plate-the-future/article/498594#ixzz4o3KwAkWA

That’s crazy. Imagine, once they get quantum computers up and running, it’s going to be out of our control.

 

[MusterX]

Just shut down all AI. We've made several movies showing how we have brought about our own demise through AI, yet we're still here fucking around.



Same here, but I was bought one for Xmas. I plug it in when the people who bought it come over, but it just freaks me out.

Well, here is the scary part. People always say where is my flying car. We thought we would have flying cars by 2020 and that is used as a way to say that new technologies aren't really coming. In that case it was a silly idea that no money was going into. In the case of A.I., all the major companies are pouring billions of dollars into this because the first company to create true A.I. is going to be a trillion dollar, next century, world beater company. Billions are being poured into these projects by all the major tech companies.

Next thing you know the Tyrell Corporation is born.

Only for now its companies like Boston Dynamics, Sony, I.B.M, Google, and many others.

In order to roll out the first androids, two main sectors have to get up to speed, one for the A.I. brain, and the other is advanced robotics to build the body. I hate when people call an android a robot. When it looks like a human, its no longer called a robot.

We are putting massive resources into both of these things and have been for years. Bill Gates is a fairly plugged in man to the industry and he said in an interview he felt every home in America would have an android by 2030 and that the hottest field going forward would be robotics.

 

[MusterX]

That’s crazy. Imagine, once they get quantum computers up and running, it’s going to be out of our control.

A.I. will be out of our control even before quantum computing becomes a mass produced reality. Once it gets out into the net and can move freely there, and once we give them bodies and they become autonoymous, at that point they will be out of our hands and just learning by living so to speak. I mean that's the goal and its the idea behind things like deep neural networks. That's how I.B.M.'s Watson won Jeopardy. They didn't program all the answers in, that's a deep learning A.I. that read tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of articles and taught itself. During the Jeopardy program, Watson was disconnected from the internet so that it had no ability to look things up either.

This is a big deal because it shows the Watson A.I. has a better grasp of language than any computer in history. One of the mind blowing things is that Alex Trebek asked the question, or rather gave the answer, "A long, tiresome speech delivered by a frothy pie topping." And Watson correctly answered "What is meringue-harangue?" The crazy thing about that is later after the show the employees at I.B.M. that created Watson went back and searched for where it may have "remembered" that phrase from and found no reference to it in the thousands of articles that Watson studied. He/it merely came up with it on his own. Another example of a fail but the same mechanic at work is Jeopardy asked...

"boxing term for a hit below the belt." The correct phrase was "low blow," but Watson's puzzling response was "wang bang." "He invented that," said Gondek, noting that nowhere among the tens of millions of words and phrases that had been loaded into the computer's memory did "wang bang" appear.
https://www.cctvcambridge.org/node/71611

 

[Amerikuracana]

This.

"Hey, want to BUY a device that listens to you and your family all the time, from a company that sells stuff, without knowing how your personal information is collected, analyzed and stored, just so you can automate some things you can do/check/perform yourself in mere seconds?"

"Sure, give me 5, one for each room."

Nailed it. Completely absurd. But millenials and dumber older people saw it in a commercial on tv, so it has to be the next big thing.. What are we going to do, question what's being sold to us by big money?? That's just craaazy.. Use your damn brains people, and reject tech like this. It's just other people getting rich duhhhh...

 

[IIIIIIII]

 

[Hollywood Jack]

I think it's pretty funny that this is happening. I stayed at a hotel in Chicago that had one in the room. My friends and I ended up continuing drinking in one of our rooms after the hotel bar closed and asked it anything we could think of.

My favorite? We asked "Alexa, can you smell what the Rock is cooking?" and she said "No, he said it doesn't matter" which was hilarious they gave her that reference for a response.

I would demand a different room if that happened to me.