Alexa
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- Personality; A Rule about Designing Games … always been an ambition of agents, and one that in the original Echo/Alexa’s case turned out to not actually be that useful, because in general people …
- To help you best, I'd need to know you … But even then we'd have to come to grips with the tradeoff being if you want Alexa or Siri to be more useful then it would have …
- It was only a receipt; It's a social problem, not a technology problem; Stupid smart lights … It was one of those Alexa nightlights[^alexa], no microphone, controllable only by talking to something that does have a microphone and is backed into Amazon's billions …
- It's a trombone, a midi controller, and a videogame controller... … I completely missed that Alexa has been running on custom Amazon silicon since at least November 2020. I was going to say "Alexa's non-corporeal existence" but …
- Domestication … Let Alexa do the busy work for you. Are you busy and overwhelmed? Alexa is here to help. You can use Alexa Routines to automate every day tasks …
- Just Put Dr. Ian Malcolm On Our Tombstone Already … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention What is the point of OpenAI, again? Yesterday I very briefly linked to Amazon's demo of Alexa mimicking voices …
- You Won't Believe These 10 Jira Tricks … I say: "Alexa, play the album Eternal Golden Braid by the band https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach [3] from Amazon Music". That's not a …
- Three Things … 1.0 Some things that caught my attention A Little Printer… On February 18, 2021, Amazon launched “ Smart Sticky Note Printer , Works With Alexa, A Day 1 Editions …
- The Defensive Patent Pool … Are you there, Alexa? It’s me, Dan. It started when I saw a tweet from Lilly Irani a professor at the University of California San Diego’s …
- What's the EGOT for Technology and Arts? … Ars Technica reported on an unpublished paper that identified “ more than 1,000 sequences that incorrectly trigger smart speakers ”, like Alexa waking up when it hears words like …
- Software from trauma, or, fingers crossed the only blockchain episode of 2020 … Local advertiser: “Alexa, show me the front door.” Alexa: OK, I can show you 10,000 front doors in the Portland Metro area. What would you like to …
- Learning the world … I bring Alexa Answers up with a heavy sigh (here’s its FAQ ) because it’s got all the tropes of gamification, and I use that word in …
- Tattletales, or, OK Google, what do you have on me? … There’s the related point, which is that an Echo presents itself as Alexa. You deal with Alexa-the-interface, not really Echo-the-object. And Alexa defaults …
- “With the word POLICE on it” … new game Hey Robot (via many people), a sort of Taboo but with Alexa/Google, is, well, genius because of how it will get people to interact with …
- Stop Using Nouns … more Echo/Alexa Kids stuff! A nightlight and a new Echo Dot Kids, and a thing that would be cool to 10 year old me, which is Alexa …
- Change your organization, or change your organization … Anyway, the idea that people in the Potterverse would yell at portraits in the same way that we yell at Alexa and Siri and, uh, OK Google, was …
- As at Batman, I want a Batcomputer so that I can remain unchallenged as The World’s Greatest Detective … UI assistants (Siri, Alexa) and now enough time has passed that there’s actual academic research! Here’s the University of Washington press release, Alexa, be my friend …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … There are now enough Alexa (plural?) out there that the phenomenon of "the funny things kids say to Alexa" is pretty well documented as well as the earlier …
- Acquisition and ingest mode, dial for a wide spread … But then, the realization that Alexa does a just-about-bad-enough job of playing music, or adding things to lists! I mean yes, it's certainly easier …
- Nobody expects the hiatus newsletter … that are now a) “smart”, b) connected to the internet and c) thusly Alexa/Cortana/Siri/Google-enabled. Oh and I guess maybe Bixby too? So just from …
- Earl Grey, Hot (again, probably) … this is exactly why talking to Alexa is sufficiently infuriating as well as helpful. In this way, it's infuriating when Alexa definitely understands the request (in our …
- Something is better than nothing … Rest easy, your 386/486SX will never talk back to you once more, with feeling. * Somewhere Amazon has data on how many preschoolers are talking to Alexa. I …
- They Should Have Sent A Poet … some point, someone somewhere is hiring MFAs or whoever to write for Siri, Alexa, Cortana and the next wave of platform-powered Bots. At places like Apple, I …
- Patterns in the noise … is this examination as to whether it's OK to use Amazon's Alexa/Echo during Shabbos[4], which is a REALLY GOOD AND INTERESTING ARTICLE and took …
- Portions Of This Consciousness Are Copyright … Siri, Cortana and Alexa and the so-far unnamed "OK Google" are all (mostly, modulo some internationalisation) female/women, never mind the "bitchin'" voice[11] designed to grab …
- Politeness … I've written about this before in terms of how social interactions with agents/characters/personalities/services like Siri, Google and Alexa are *designed*, because we have to …
- What You'll Reap; Foo Thoughts; The Next Generation … As Hammersley points out, Alexa doesn't say thank you. She just, well, "meets your user need". So Hammersley ends up being progressively more curt and abrupt and …
- Our Crap Connected Future; Oh My God More Advertising; Echo … I mean, "ALEXA, GIVE ME MY FLASH NEWS BRIEFING" - is that something that Tech dad programmed into Alexa so he could be all GIVE ME MY FLASH NEWS …