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I am waiting for the day when someone will sneak in those magic words into a TV commercial to wake up Echo, Siri, etc. Imagine like a DDoS caused by a TV comme
by goshx 11y ago
I am waiting for the day when someone will sneak in those magic words into a TV commercial to wake up Echo, Siri, etc.
Imagine like a DDoS caused by a TV commercial on Super Bowl.
I have the Echo and sometimes it scares the * out of me when something on my TV sounds similar to "Alexa", like "a lexus".
- vhost- 11y agoMine actually gets triggered by the Echo commercials on TV and it really scares me sometimes.
- cbhl 11y agoAlready happened on NPR: http://www.npr.org/2016/03/06/469383361/listen-up-your-ai-assistant-goes-crazy-for-npr-too http://www.npr.org/2016/03/06/469383361/listen-up-your-ai-as...
- rootbear 11y agoYeah, they call the activation word a "wake word", but I couldn't help but think of it as a "safe word". It needs to be something that you're only likely to say when you mean it. Which, to me, implies it should be customizable. I should be able to set it to whatever makes sense for me. This issue comes up in science fiction stories, often set on spacecraft, where there is an AI that is spoken to. On Star Trek, they just said "Computer?" and that got it's attention. But that always seemed a little clunky to me. At first I thought the ship AI should have the same name as the ship, but I quickly realized that probably wouldn't work so well. Picard: "This is the USS Enterprise!" Computer: "Yes?" On Babylon 5, a Minbari character just called his ship, "ship", and in Alien, the ship was Mother, etc. I decided that if I ever wrote an SF story with a shipboard AI (or HAD a ship with a shipboard AI :) I would call it Maru-san.