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Title: Amazon Echo speakers obey TV's command to buy a dollhouse Post by: HCK on January 11, 2017, 04:05:16 pm Amazon Echo speakers obey TV's command to buy a dollhouse
<article> <section class="page"> <p>One of the unintended results of our growing world of voice-activated devices and assistants is that they can be inadvertently set to a task. We first caught a glimpse of that problem two and a half years ago when an Xbox One ad woke Xbox consoles (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2363207/yes-breaking-bads-aaron-paul-just-turned-on-your-xbox-one-with-an-ad.html) across the globe. More recently, Amazon’s Alexa ended up inadvertently obeying a command from broadcast TV to make a purchase on Amazon—or at least that’s what some Echo owners claim.</p><p>It all started a few days ago when a 6-year-old girl in Texas asked Alexa to “play dollhouse with me and get me a dollhouse.” Alexa quickly complied with the request and ordered the child a dollhouse from Amazon, as well as four pounds of cookies, according to CBS DFW (http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/01/04/kindergartener-accidentally-orders-pricey-toy-through-amazons-alexa/).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3155510/internet-of-things/amazon-echo-speakers-obey-tvs-command-to-buy-a-dollhouse.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Amazon Echo speakers obey TV's command to buy a dollhouse (http://www.macworld.com/article/3155510/internet-of-things/amazon-echo-speakers-obey-tvs-command-to-buy-a-dollhouse.html#tk.rss_all) |