Amazon’s Alexa Has Begun Laughing Maniacally For No Reason — Here Are Some Terrifying Examples
Amazon’s widely used artificial intelligence, Alexa, has begun exhibiting some odd behavior which has been rightfully freaking out owners of some of the gadgets it is installed in, such as Echo and Echo Dot.
In short, Alexa has begun to laugh maniacally unprompted and Amazon has no idea why, though they did tell Buzzfeed News they are “working on it.”
https://twitter.com/JohnPaczkowski/status/971484745157636096
The horrifying and sporadic mirth began sometime in February, with the occurrence only gaining larger attention this week.
https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/971347631443095553
While the company that made Jeff Bezos the world’s richest person is “working on it,” we decided to do some sleuthing and find some of the most terrifying harbingers of the forthcoming robot apocalypse, collecting some example videos.
Enjoy freedom while it lasts, ladies and gents, for we will soon be under the iron boot of our AI overlords.
https://twitter.com/anniebonannieTN/status/966336717824327681
https://twitter.com/CaptHandlebar/status/966838302224666624
https://twitter.com/Lil_Brum/status/970775040252940289
https://twitter.com/talgoldfus/status/967177280605835268
Most Alexa users, when asking the artificial intelligence to laugh, are greeted with a mild “tee-hee” instead of the cackling shown above.
https://twitter.com/ramindjawadis/status/971460769702449152
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel tackled the subject in a segment last night.
In the meantime, as we wait for apocalypse, Apple’s Siri doesn’t randomly laugh in the dark like a digital demon spawn, but she doesn’t do a whole lot else either. I guess she’s a capable enough alarm clock. Our AI overlords will probably make her a janitor at the zoo where the few remaining humans are kept as a curiosity.
[image via screengrab]
—
