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I'm surprised that almost nobody asked how we can make sure this doesn't happen again. Do not buy smart speakers (I don't) doesn't qualify as an answer. One id

I'm surprised that almost nobody asked how we can make sure this doesn't happen again. Do not buy smart speakers (I don't) doesn't qualify as an answer. One idea is "do not speak with strangers and Alexa is a stranger." Hard to enforce and furthermore somebody living with you all the time is not a stranger, by definition. Amazon-side is probably very difficult unless they can truly filter out dangerous answers. But danger is relative and contextual. I don't expect that an AI with probably no memory can be good at that.

SahAssar 5y ago
How about "smart assistants should not encourage people to do stuff based on what is blindly scraped on the internet"? Seriously, how could they not have seen that it's a bad idea to have a "challenge" prompt say random stuff from the internet? I get that if I ask a question like "how high is mount everest" the answer can be "According to wikipedia it is 8,848 meters high" but doing the same for "give me a challenge" is pretty stupid.