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Alexa vs. Siri vs. Google: Which Can Carry on a Conversation Best? - The New York Times
Future elections may be swayed by intelligent, weaponized chatbots - MIT Technology Review
The AI advances that brought you Alexa are teaching propaganda how to talk.
IQ testing digital AI assistants
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/25/siri-on-ios-latest-test/
Google Assistant answered 85.5 % … correctly and understood all of them, Siri answered 78.5 % correctly and misunderstood 11. Alexa correctly answered 61.4 % and misunderstood 13, while Cortana correctly answered 52.4 % and misunderstood 19.
Internet-connected thermostats, Locks and Lights: Tools of Domestic Abuse - NYTimes
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/technology/smart-home-devices-domestic-abuse.html
now also being used as a means for harassment, monitoring, revenge and control.
Amazon’s explanation for the Alexa eavesdropping scandal - Recode
https://www.recode.net/2018/5/24/17391480/amazon-alexa-woman-secret-recording-echo-explanation
A Portland, Ore., woman’s claim that her Amazon Echo device secretly recorded a private conversation between her and her husband and sent it to an acquaintance of theirs
Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t. - NYTimes
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/alexa-siri-hidden-command-audio-attacks.html
making them dial phone numbers or open websites.
Gjøkur/alarmklokke koblet til internett
Cuckoo clock pulls voicemail off the Internet and plays it back The CuckooIP is a student-built, Internet-connected cuckoo clock that receives alarms by phone (call and record a message and set a time for it to play) and then replays them at set times: the cuckoo comes out of his hole and the recorded message plays back.
Messages can be set for any time in the future; reminders, greetings, insults or revelations.
Vaskerobot
A very small and ultra-nice robot that cleans up your mess, just like a Swiffer. Cleaning the floor is not its primary function, but it can do that too. This is basically a companion robot that makes sure your place is clean, it handles your emails, it acts as a security systen and it can even recognize you.