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Do you also worry for kids who use planners and encyclopedias? People who say things like this seem like they either don't know how or don't care to change thei
by xmprt 5y ago
Do you also worry for kids who use planners and encyclopedias? People who say things like this seem like they either don't know how or don't care to change their workflow by incorporating new technology.
Hey Alexa isn't the problem. It's the corporations behind them and their data collection policies.
- gambiting 5y agoContent in encyclopedias is curated by a team of editors - I trust it about 1000x more than whatever nonsense Alexa says. It's mostly algorithmically generated by scouring the internet, without any kind of editing - it's trivial to find countless examples of Alexa(and Google home and Siri) providing completely nonsensical answers, because the question matched the snippet of the first article on some loony website. It's great if you catch it as a parent, but I know in many homes these devices are allowed completely without any supervision.
- rich_sasha 5y agoOnly knowing, or or primarily relying on a single point of entry for all knowledge discovery is an issue. If you need to look something up in an encyclopaedia, even if it’s just Wikipedia, it already makes you aware of the plurality of sources and endows with some basic searching skills. Hey Alexa doesnt.