Alexa is Spontaneously Laughing?!

[danDroid]

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Amazon is trying to stop its Amazon Echos, powered by the Alexa voice-activated assistant, from suddenly laughing. The online retail giant told to tech news publication The Verge on Wednesday that it is aware that some Echo Internet-connected speakers have a laughing problem and is “working to fix it.”

Continue Reading @ Fortune

 

[me just sayin]

it's fixed now. you can no longer ask alexa to laugh, by saying "alexa laugh"

Amazon has a fix for Alexa’s creepy laughs

fix will involve disabling the phrase, “Alexa, laugh,” and changing the command to “Alexa, can you laugh?” The company says the latter phrase is “less likely to have false positives,”

 

[danDroid]

it's fixed now. you can no longer ask alexa to laugh, by saying "alexa laugh"

Amazon has a fix for Alexa’s creepy laughs

Dang it, that's what I get for posting the news late in the afternoon. Thanks for the update!