Thread: Be Mindfull - Amazon's Alexa is listening and learning

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

Yes but did you adjust the temperature in your house from from work before you got there? or turn the lights on from the other side of the world? Did you ask the man at the door of your Thai home what he want? from 8,478 mi away (distance from NY to Khon Kaen) ? and he though you were asking from inside the house. Did you check to see what your dogs were doing from the other side of the world?

Who feeds and walks these dogs on the other side of the world? Why not tell him/her to answer the door and turn the lights off?

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Really? I think talking to a speaker and it immediately responding with the music list you want is great. Beats standing up and putting on a CD, beats buying the CD. Spotify is great, and Alexa is a wonderful servant organising and playing it for you.

I can play all my music from my smartfone to a bluetooth speaker. I can also turn my lights on and off and look through webcams from abroad without talking to the coffee table

For me the cons of having a device that is constantly listening in my house far outweigh the pros, when I can do it all anyway without the stupid gimmick

Since I got Alexa, I have learnt Navajo for when I want to have a private conversation with myself

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Call me a Neanderthal

I will call alexa when the tech can give me a blowjob

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

Resistance if futile

depends if you have uPnP on or off

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

I have learnt Navajo

a budding terrorist obviously



nothing wrong with tech if you can work out how to use it without it using you

Alexa Guard is a new skill that you can enable in your smartphone alexa app to monitor your home when way. It works with your Alexa dot device. It will detect braking glass sound, smoke alarm or co2 alarm and send your phone an alert, then to confirm you can activate a web cam and have visual confirmation. activate two way communication and start yelling at intruder telling him "Police is on its way" and set loud alarm. It is all very inexpensive, I have it at both my US homes and will be installing it at our Thai home as son as I come back this fall. Already have webcams.
Anyone wants to listen into my farting , burping and all three minutes of my love making sounds is welcome. LOL

you will know it is listening to your masturbatory efforts when you get ads for wanking socks

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Let Alexei teach you Thai.
I just discovered a new Alexa skill.
Teaching Languages.
Not sure if it is available in Thailand (cant imagine it will not be) but I am not there right now to check.
In the vid it says "Download the skill from the Alexa skill store" but in my Alexa echo it was already installed.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Be Mindfull - Amazon's Alexa is listening and learning

Not only Alexa, Google Home's Assistant is equally nosy.
I lost one of my internet connections the other day, the one my Google Home devices are connected to.
Woke up in the middle of the night by Assistant declaring loud and clear that it didn't have an internet connection and suggested ways to remedy that.
What did it want to do in the middle of the night without being commanded, upload "sound samples" ?

Originally Posted by lom

Not only Alexa, Google Home's Assistant is equally nosy.
I lost one of my internet connections the other day, the one my Google Home devices are connected to.
Woke up in the middle of the night by Assistant declaring loud and clear that it didn't have an internet connection and suggested ways to remedy that.
What did it want to do in the middle of the night without being commanded, upload "sound samples" ?

The assistant could be connected to devices the user depends for his/hers safety or even a wake up alarm etc. For the assistant not to warn the user in the event such functions were incapacitated do to internet connectivity issues would have being negligent.
If one does not want to be disturbed one can simply post a "do not disturb" command.

Originally Posted by lom

Agreed but since the assistant knows so much then it also ought to know that there weren't any such dependencies or functions enabled.
It wanted to use my internet for a reason only known by itself, maybe it just felt lonely. ET phone home..

Assistants are not without problems, but they are getting better all the time. I think the day will come that like cellphones , we will wonder how we ever lived without them.
One time Alexa started playing music in the middle of the night , it has never happened again , but it could be because I have set up a "do not disturb " routine. I am sure Google has the same skill.
With Alexa you can simply use the verbal command nightly when you so desire and remove it in the morning, or you can set it up that Alexa goes on "do not disturb" mode every night at a particular time , and is reactivated at a particular time.

My girlfriend asked me why I was speaking so softly at home.
I told her I was afraid Mark Zuckerberg was listening!
She laughed. I laughed.
Alexa laughed. Siri laughed.

and a bored NSA contractor sniggered quietly

Originally Posted by baldrick

and a bored NSA contractor sniggered quietly

I think I experienced that once. But it could have been Thai or any other foreign agency for all I knew.