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So What Was Up with Alexa's Creepy Laughter Anyway?

• sombremesa 9y ago
  Seems like a hoax more than anything. Also, what's up with that domain name?
  • gh02t 9y ago
    It definitely happened, Amazon said it was a bug that caused Alexa to be more likely to interpret silence or random noise as "laugh" after a false trigger (or something along those lines). I suspect it was either a legitimate bug or if I wanna be more adventurous, an internal prank/easter egg that somehow went wrong and got pushed to customers.
    • beagle3 9y ago
      My guess is that the were working on a "laugh track" skill, that laughs with you when it hears laughter -- and either it was pushed too early, or was just too sensitive in its determination of what laughter is. Many dry sitcoms become funny with a proper laugh track. Why not your life?
  • make3 9y ago
    it's an AI terminator fear mongering debunking website by AI researchers
• reaperducer 9y ago
  Did I not read the article clearly, or is there exactly zero information here that wasn't thoroughly covered back when this happened months ago?
• throwaway2016a 9y ago
  While "Alexa laugh" (which I can confirm has happened to me) was fixed month ago, "Alexa, fart" is still an issue. It sounds like a sophomoric joke but it's not. I was having a normal conversation with somewhere where neither of us said "Alexa" or "fart" and the Alexa randomly let out a huge embarrassing fart noise. Having known about the "laugh" issue it didn't take long to guess what Alexa thought it heard.