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My 6yo son thinks Alexa is an actual person... he might be on to something.
by aviv 8y ago
My 6yo son thinks Alexa is an actual person... he might be on to something.
- erikig 8y agoI wonder if any of the 10,000 people are actually named Alexa, and if so do they get any preferential treatment?
- dna_polymerase 8y agoMost likely they would rather get truckloads of horrible jokes.
- monk_e_boy 8y agoI always feel sorry for all the Alexas. And the Harry Potters who were living their lives just fine before the books. My friend is named Tressa Green. Her dad assured me he had no idea that most people pronounced Tres-sa as Tree-sa. [edit] this is a fun read: https://www.radiotimes.com/news/film/2018-03-22/meet-the-real-life-muggles-named-harry-potter/ https://www.radiotimes.com/news/film/2018-03-22/meet-the-rea...
- stuart_marshall 8y agoIf you look at the lists of ranked baby names by year, you'll see a massive drop off of Alexas about when Amazon shipped.
- Baeocystin 8y agoOne of my coworkers used to go by Alexa, and has since just switched to Alex. She is not happy about it, but none of the available wake words are ideal. I say computer and amazon too often to use those, and it baffles me that we can't just choose our own, which is something that the very first Droid phone supported.
- mkio 8y agoMaybe 9,900 of those employees are hired to step in anytime Alexa doesn't know how to interpret a voice command.
- visarga 8y agoIf it worked real time, that would make for quick accumulation of training data. But I don't think a human can manually solve the queries fast enough.
- lostsock 8y agoRelevent podcast miniseries about exactly this idea: https://www.gimletmedia.com/sandra https://www.gimletmedia.com/sandra