In recent times, many have been from users who have seen how Amazon's Echo speakers as well as devices managed by Amazon's assistant, Alexa, have begun to laugh at themselves for no apparent reason, without the users having requested it at any time or before any question from their users.
As Amazon has stated to The Verge "We are aware of this and are working to fix it." But according to the Jeff Bezos company, the solution is to disable the phrase "Alexa laughs" changing it to «Alexa, can you laugh? According to the company, this phrase is less prone to false positives.
This means that the Alexa software would be less prone to confusing commonly used words and phrases that sound similar to those that "force" Alexa to laugh. But it seems that change the voice command needed to make Amazon laugh, It would not be enough and you will probably stop doing it by changing your answer to "Sure, I can laugh" instead of starting to laugh a bit spookily, as we have seen in several YouTube videos that have been uploaded.
Lying in bed about to fall asleep when Alexa on my Amazon Echo Dot lets out a very loud and creepy laugh… there's a good chance I get murdered tonight.
- Gavin Hightower (@GavinHightower) February 26, 2018
The first users who started reporting the bug, they thought it was a real person laughing near them, which caused panic episodes in some people when they believed that someone had sneaked into their homes, especially those of people who live solar. Most of them ended up unplugging their Alexa-managed devices.
Many users have claimed that laughter reminded them of the HAL 9000, the 2001 Space Odyssey computer, a computer that proclaimed its murderous intentions. Also, the tone of the voice used was not very reassuring. This may be the first sign that having connected smart devices in our homes is the first step towards a spooky dystopian future where artificial intelligences will completely dominate us.
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