Siri is being very...helpful

[kestrell]

This morning I had a Zoom meeting and found myself saying first "Hi, Sara," and then "Hi, Paul," but it seems that Siri now also answers to the name Sara (or perhaps Sara is her evil twin?) and believes that "Hi, Paul" means that she should go ahead and phone Paul, and meanwhile Alexa mutters that she doesn't know how to respond to that name.

I'm contemplating renaming the aerye the Singularity.

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"AI" -- those really are scary quotes

[bibliofile]

I know someone who was on a video call with one person. When one of them asked their Alexa to do something, the other person's Alexa responded. (Fortunately, it was probably something comparatively harmless, like change the music being played, and not starting a game of Global THermonuclear War.)

Re: "AI" -- those really are scary quotes

[kestrell]

During the Sight Tech Global virtual conference in December, which was all about tech visually impaired people use, speakers came up with all sorts of aliases for Alexa and still, occasionally someone would forget, and then you would hear Alexas chattering away in the background. I need to do a semiotics study and go through all the recorded panels so I can collect all the Alexa aliases.