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“Is her name like ‘Sarah Drop Tables,’ like that xkcd joke?” No, it’s like that other xkcd joke where he wanders into people’s houses and says “Alexa, order me a …”
I love how Tom basically gives it away immediately after they bring up Alexa, and still sit there fumbling for several minutes. When I got my google glass back in 2014 the VERY first thing my coworkers did was start yelling "Hey google..." and asking for things that would have definitely gotten me in trouble with the network admins, lol.
For awhile, my friend decided it was funny to randomly say "Hey, Google, call me " when I had my phone out. Luckily, my phone doesn't usually respond to his voice 😂
An XKCD from a few years back shows someone entering a home as a guest and immediately saying "Hey Alexa, order (a huge amount of something like alfalfa). Confirm order." He called it "testing for audio surveillance devices".
Yeah, the second half was really easy once someone mentioned the news... Wasn't sure why it was reported in San Diego rather than Dallas, but I guess the Dallas newscast was more careful?
When my niece was 4 years old, she ordered 2 Peppa Pig toys from Amazon costing over $100, charged to her Uncle's credit card, but it wasn't through Alexa or another voice assistant. Also, it wasn't my credit card. My niece was watching Peppa Pig RUclips videos on her tablet. My brother-in-law noticed that and signed her tablet into Amazon Prime because Amazon had Peppa Pig videos without commercials (this was before Amazon added commercials). The next day, my brother-in-law called my sister and asked if she had ordered expensive Peppa Pig toys and she said she hadn't. When my sister asked my niece if she had ordered the toys, my niece said, "How'd you find out? But I'm still getting them, right?" She didn't get them.
gosh I love it when these three are the guests. if it were always ella, tom, and caroline, I think I'd be okay with that. (not that the other guests are bad!! they're just my favorites!!! especially since learning that caroline plays roller derby hehehe)
I saw this comment as a spoiler at the start of the video, so knowing it was Alexa-related was a cheat. But my guess was that the child was like a child-streamer and it was picked up by Echos in the house where children were watching the stream.
I remembered this story from back when it happened and my first reaction to the question was "Oh no, this is a very dangerous question to have on your podcast"
The Snopes website actually has this scenario down as 'unproven'. I do remember it being widely reported at the time and the story travelled well because it was very funny! That said I don't have one of these devices myself, but I understand that you can set up an optional PIN number to be confirmed every time you order something. Maybe if this safeguard was a default feature, this story wouldn't have happened as the girl wouldn't have been able to order anything.
As someone who lives in a house with a couple of these things, used almost exclusively as music streaming devices, and the number of times a simple question is followed by "I'm sorry..." or requires repeating before the thing does what the requester wants, I'd say "unproven" is a good word for this story.
I recall a super bowl ad for burger king that was basically a guy going "we don't have enough time, alexa, what's a burger king whopper?" which resulted in a bunch of alexas reading out the wikipedia article for whopper. inevitably people went and changed it to say a bunch of offensive stuff to the point where amazon had to issue an update that disabled responses to the ad's audio altogether
@@VonOzbourne They're very sensitive to some accents; for example, apparently scottish accents cause them to fail much more than, say, US east coast. It may be yours is not tuned correctly for your accent, or your tonal changes from what it expects, or something along those lines. It doesn't help you resolve the problem, annoying as it is, but at least you know why it's so troublesome - and it explains why a young girl in the US might be able to set it off without the same issues as you'd find with an adult in, say, Glasgow. :-/
My first thought, when I heard about it being a digital mixup, was a labelling error; I've heard about people trying to order boxes off of Amazon and getting boxes full of stuff, because the boxes they get are reused packaging from granola or whatever, and the picker scans the label for "granola" rather than "empty box".
My first thought was similar to that, where the surprised recipients all lived in places where the 6-year-old's family had lived previously. In this scenario, the family would have kept them as shipping addresses because they forgot to delete them and somehow a glitch led to all of them receiving the order instead of just one, to the surprise of the new residents
This reminds me of Mark Rober's appearance on Jimmy Kimmel a few years ago telling Alexa to change volume to 10 and play Who Let the Dogs Out and then Jimmy telling Alexa to order a bunch of pool noodles.
I saw a video that really shouldn't have been funny but somehow was hilarious. Someone had put one event on their calendar on their Alexa that was named "Hey Siri, what's on my calendar for today?" and then put an event on the calendar on their iPhone named "Hey Alexa, what's on my calendar for today?", then said one of those phrases and left the two devices alone.
I heard San Diego and I immediately thought of Ron Burgundy. "Was she watching Anchorman on TV?" but.... (spoilers) . . . Serves them right for not turning their surveillance servants off. :D
7:50 having worked in customer service positions, the number of people who need to have experienced an issue before they call in to complain about having that issue is 0.
When I moved into my house nearly 5 years ago, my coworkers bought me an Echo Show (the one with the screen) as a housewarming gift. I have it upstairs in my bedroom, on my side table, and I use it as a glorified clock. Not even an alarm clock: I use my phone as an alarm. I'm so glad I never had a use for it, otherwise it would be down in my living room, and on at least two occasions would have triggered from RUclips videos saying its name 😂
My first instinct was actually to take the acronym of the doll's house's name (KCSM, as I imagined "craft" written with a C when listening to the podcast, though KKSM would work, too), and wondered if it could be the name of a radio station, since a city's area was affected and I recall many American ones starting with K. I didn't get anywhere with that thought and turned out to be completely wrong, but weirdly close at the same time. Edit: I just googled it and it turns out KKSM is actually a station near San Diego!
Station call signs in the US generally start with 'K' west of the Mississippi River and 'W' to the east, although there are some exceptions: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_signs_in_the_United_States For the most part, though, if a radio or TV station is based in California it will be a 'K!'
"Alexa, list the ingredients of a Wopper." "... cyanide..." In 2017 Burger King had the phrase in their TV advertisements, so that when triggered Alexa would read the Wikipedia article of the Wopper. And because the internet is the internet, it really didn't take long until people started changing this Wikipedia article, so that Alexa claimed that the Wopper was "the worst burger out there" or that it contained cyanide, among other things.
I still remember the meeting I was in where the speaker said "We need to take this seriously" and about 8 phones in the room beeped and started listening in.
eh, why do people get secretaries and assistants in the first place? Same answer: Convenience. In this case, also novelty. It's up to you to put it in a location where it can't hear everything.
I ended up getting this for the wrong reason. When I was living in CA, I had multiple Amazon Echos, they all were on the same system and had the correct information, except one, which was still on the same system but adamantly believed it was in Dallas and refused to be reprogrammed, so we just had one device that would give the wrong time and weather whenever asked
They should make it so Alexa/Siri only accept orders if they recognize the voice of the person associated with the account. I mean, yeah, maybe a few random people might sound just like the newscaster, but it would lower the chances significantly. Alternately, the news could filter for the words Alexa and Siri and beep them out like vulgarity. That would probably take a couple seconds delay, but for unidirectional information like a news broadcast that might work. The delay would probably be too much for something like Zoom though. (That would be a fun way to prank people in a Zoom call... imagine a classroom Zoom call and one person wants to be mischievous...)
Honestly Amazon should start getting sued for this. If you gave your information to a travel agent and they heard you said "Yeah I kind of like beaches I been thinking about that" and then the agent books 7 different vacations at beaches and precharges your card for it they'd be getting sued for a lot of money.
Not gonna happen because... 1) You can opt out of voice purchasing, so it was your choice to have the function enabled (and you can turn off/on the microphone at any time with a button on the speaker) 2) The moment it happens, Alexa tells you it has happened (so you can cancel it before you are charged, which for items sold by Amazon is when they are dispatched) 3) You can return the item and get a refund. 4) it's probably covered by the small print that everyone has to agree to when setting up an account. With regards to (2) I'm guessing that most of the people who received the items hadn't been in the room when it happened (they'd left the news on as they did other things around the house)
I literally can't overstate how much I love this specific cast and how much Ella is definitely the most huggable, squishable person ever. I would literally give the world to that girl.
A friend's one year old got used to asking Alexa for things (with no credit card attached, because the parents weren't dumb), and was also going through a mild bubble wrap obsession. So her parents come into her room I've day to hear her listening to some pretty aggressive rap music. And then realized that baby had probably asked Alexa to play her bubble wrap.
Reminds me of a funny video recently of someone trying to order pizza via a Chinese AI bot... you'd have to understand Chinese to get the jokes, but it escalated pretty hilariously
Any chance of us getting full length video episodes ever, Tom? Personally I'm not into podcasts, or audiobooks and so on, they just don't really fit into my life I suppose. But I enjoy the show very much and it would be wonderful to be able to watch it, as you would any other gameshow. Or maybe something like a monthly 'best bits' episode, perhaps?
Gee, d'you think there maybe ought to be more steps to making a purchase than just some random person vaguely saying to the air "Alexa, order a rum-tee-tum"? Do you think maybe there should be some kind of confirmation process to approve the purchase and say "Yes, I do want to spend money on this"? It'd be crazy to just develop a device that can spend arbitrary amounts of your money by mistake, wouldn't it?
Immidiate guess was that she has done something nice or posted some video saying she wanted one, and as a reward the company wanted to send her a doll house but didnt know the adress so sent one to eveyrone with her name.
spoilers i cannot be the only person horrified that people making content on tv/the internet have to be careful about saying certain phrases just because that can make people buy things they dont want to buy. like this feels like the worst kind of advancement weve achieved as a society. put it back
Burger King had a TV ad that triggered android phones by saying OK Google what is the whopper burger. It played the rest of the ad by reading the wiki page about the whopper. It didn't last long. Google prevented the page from loading and others doctored the page in a way that was not in Burger King's best interest.
I think it’s just that Tom, Ella and Caroline are quite young, so it’s long enough ago that they were teenagers when we were reading the news stories about this, but it isn’t *that* long
Modern humanity: I don't like talking on the phone anymore, I communicate with my friends by text. Also modern humanity: I want a computer that listens to me speak instead of accepting text input, no matter how inaccurate, unpredictable, invasive, or inconvenient it is, because it makes me feel like I'm in the future that Star Trek promised us. Star Trek: Yeah that was more about including everything in the spoken dialogue for a TV show than a vision of progress necessarily.
American news anchors act way too much like they're talk show hosts. I'm doubt this kind of thing would have happened in the UK, unless you were watching Good Morning on ITV or something.
During the covid-work-from-home fun times, I pranked some coworkers who had left their zoom open by saying 'Hey Alexa, add a catering pack of KY jelly to my shopping list', and listening happily as various Alexas in different houses all responded :)
It was with the Make-a-wish foundation for something the company wasn't making anymore . They agreed to make one for her but figured they might as well make more than one since they had to restart production?
When Ella answers with Alexa, it's not masked in any way. This must be something that Tom knew would be done in post, or maybe they never got around to it?
Why would anyone complain to the news station when it's 100 % their fault for using an Alexa in the first place? That's like shooting an arrow straight up, then when it falls back and hits you, you complain to gravity.
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5:00 "a hundred-and-seventy-five-dollar doll's house and four pounds of cookies" is a statistic worthy of "Little" Alex Horne. 😂
“Is her name like ‘Sarah Drop Tables,’ like that xkcd joke?”
No, it’s like that other xkcd joke where he wanders into people’s houses and says “Alexa, order me a …”
Ah, good ol' XKCD-1807
"Alexa, order two tons of creamed corn."
Famous story! Knew it from the first second, but loved how contestants eventually got there.
I love how Tom basically gives it away immediately after they bring up Alexa, and still sit there fumbling for several minutes.
When I got my google glass back in 2014 the VERY first thing my coworkers did was start yelling "Hey google..." and asking for things that would have definitely gotten me in trouble with the network admins, lol.
For awhile, my friend decided it was funny to randomly say "Hey, Google, call me " when I had my phone out. Luckily, my phone doesn't usually respond to his voice 😂
An XKCD from a few years back shows someone entering a home as a guest and immediately saying "Hey Alexa, order (a huge amount of something like alfalfa). Confirm order." He called it "testing for audio surveillance devices".
@@spyone4828 When Amazon delivers three tons of alfalfa and a dozen gerbils to your house, you're probably in an xkcd strip. :-)
@@spyone4828 Two tons of creamed corn. I often bring that gag up anytime someone admits to having one of those silly spyboxes.
Yeah, the second half was really easy once someone mentioned the news... Wasn't sure why it was reported in San Diego rather than Dallas, but I guess the Dallas newscast was more careful?
When my niece was 4 years old, she ordered 2 Peppa Pig toys from Amazon costing over $100, charged to her Uncle's credit card, but it wasn't through Alexa or another voice assistant. Also, it wasn't my credit card. My niece was watching Peppa Pig RUclips videos on her tablet. My brother-in-law noticed that and signed her tablet into Amazon Prime because Amazon had Peppa Pig videos without commercials (this was before Amazon added commercials). The next day, my brother-in-law called my sister and asked if she had ordered expensive Peppa Pig toys and she said she hadn't. When my sister asked my niece if she had ordered the toys, my niece said, "How'd you find out? But I'm still getting them, right?" She didn't get them.
gosh I love it when these three are the guests. if it were always ella, tom, and caroline, I think I'd be okay with that. (not that the other guests are bad!! they're just my favorites!!! especially since learning that caroline plays roller derby hehehe)
That would be Ella. 😉 And yes, they're my favorites too!
Have you listened to Let's Learn Everything? It's really fun
@@MisterAppleEsq Thanks for the recommendation! 👍
Tom explaining why the listener won't be able to hear Alexa and them not getting the second half of the question immediately
I saw this comment as a spoiler at the start of the video, so knowing it was Alexa-related was a cheat. But my guess was that the child was like a child-streamer and it was picked up by Echos in the house where children were watching the stream.
I remembered this story from back when it happened and my first reaction to the question was "Oh no, this is a very dangerous question to have on your podcast"
The Snopes website actually has this scenario down as 'unproven'.
I do remember it being widely reported at the time and the story travelled well because it was very funny!
That said I don't have one of these devices myself, but I understand that you can set up an optional PIN number to be confirmed every time you order something.
Maybe if this safeguard was a default feature, this story wouldn't have happened as the girl wouldn't have been able to order anything.
As someone who lives in a house with a couple of these things, used almost exclusively as music streaming devices, and the number of times a simple question is followed by "I'm sorry..." or requires repeating before the thing does what the requester wants, I'd say "unproven" is a good word for this story.
I recall a super bowl ad for burger king that was basically a guy going "we don't have enough time, alexa, what's a burger king whopper?" which resulted in a bunch of alexas reading out the wikipedia article for whopper. inevitably people went and changed it to say a bunch of offensive stuff to the point where amazon had to issue an update that disabled responses to the ad's audio altogether
@@VonOzbourne They're very sensitive to some accents; for example, apparently scottish accents cause them to fail much more than, say, US east coast. It may be yours is not tuned correctly for your accent, or your tonal changes from what it expects, or something along those lines. It doesn't help you resolve the problem, annoying as it is, but at least you know why it's so troublesome - and it explains why a young girl in the US might be able to set it off without the same issues as you'd find with an adult in, say, Glasgow. :-/
2:28 So it DID turn out to be like the xkcd comic, the 1807 Listening
I mean, whatever the scenario, there is a high chance there's an xkcd comic about it.
My first thought, when I heard about it being a digital mixup, was a labelling error; I've heard about people trying to order boxes off of Amazon and getting boxes full of stuff, because the boxes they get are reused packaging from granola or whatever, and the picker scans the label for "granola" rather than "empty box".
My first thought was similar to that, where the surprised recipients all lived in places where the 6-year-old's family had lived previously. In this scenario, the family would have kept them as shipping addresses because they forgot to delete them and somehow a glitch led to all of them receiving the order instead of just one, to the surprise of the new residents
I was like, "was there poor input sanitization and their name was Null or something?"
I thought at first that "digital" was being used in reference to digits, and that it was a zip code mix-up.
This reminds me of Mark Rober's appearance on Jimmy Kimmel a few years ago telling Alexa to change volume to 10 and play Who Let the Dogs Out and then Jimmy telling Alexa to order a bunch of pool noodles.
I saw a video that really shouldn't have been funny but somehow was hilarious. Someone had put one event on their calendar on their Alexa that was named "Hey Siri, what's on my calendar for today?" and then put an event on the calendar on their iPhone named "Hey Alexa, what's on my calendar for today?", then said one of those phrases and left the two devices alone.
3:55 I thought she said "the Insta-bunny." Now that's an idea.
What a brilliant story! My favourite since the question about sheep in Blaenau Ffestiniog.
One of my favorite questions I've heard!
Another good reason I will never have a voice activated device.
I heard San Diego and I immediately thought of Ron Burgundy. "Was she watching Anchorman on TV?"
but....
(spoilers)
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Serves them right for not turning their surveillance servants off. :D
the Paris casino question mentioned
1:40
7:50 having worked in customer service positions, the number of people who need to have experienced an issue before they call in to complain about having that issue is 0.
When I moved into my house nearly 5 years ago, my coworkers bought me an Echo Show (the one with the screen) as a housewarming gift. I have it upstairs in my bedroom, on my side table, and I use it as a glorified clock. Not even an alarm clock: I use my phone as an alarm. I'm so glad I never had a use for it, otherwise it would be down in my living room, and on at least two occasions would have triggered from RUclips videos saying its name 😂
My first instinct was actually to take the acronym of the doll's house's name (KCSM, as I imagined "craft" written with a C when listening to the podcast, though KKSM would work, too), and wondered if it could be the name of a radio station, since a city's area was affected and I recall many American ones starting with K.
I didn't get anywhere with that thought and turned out to be completely wrong, but weirdly close at the same time.
Edit: I just googled it and it turns out KKSM is actually a station near San Diego!
And KCSM is an actual radio station in San Mateo, a few hundred miles north of San Diego.
Station call signs in the US generally start with 'K' west of the Mississippi River and 'W' to the east, although there are some exceptions: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_signs_in_the_United_States
For the most part, though, if a radio or TV station is based in California it will be a 'K!'
Also: "Alexa, play William Shatner's Common People"
"Alexa, list the ingredients of a Wopper." "... cyanide..."
In 2017 Burger King had the phrase in their TV advertisements, so that when triggered Alexa would read the Wikipedia article of the Wopper. And because the internet is the internet, it really didn't take long until people started changing this Wikipedia article, so that Alexa claimed that the Wopper was "the worst burger out there" or that it contained cyanide, among other things.
Ahh classic Tom, Matt and Hannah on the park bench!
I'd like to imagine that Ron Burgundy was that news anchor in San Diego.
This is why I don't have this ordering option turned on. At most it can put an item in my shopping list.
I still remember the meeting I was in where the speaker said "We need to take this seriously" and about 8 phones in the room beeped and started listening in.
Why do people buy those physical spywares that buy stuff behind your back is really beyond me.
Just think: in order to work, they have to be ALWAYS listening. It worries me that people don't find this creepy.
Agreed, it should be clear by now to everyone that this was a horribly bad idea.
Also. 2017 was definitely not before "digital ordering".
eh, why do people get secretaries and assistants in the first place? Same answer: Convenience. In this case, also novelty.
It's up to you to put it in a location where it can't hear everything.
mostly bc I have nothing to hide, lmao
if they want to listen to my boring ass life, go for it
The 1970s: "I got to be carefull what words I use on the phone, my line might be tapped."
The 2010s: "Alexa, order a sixpack of beer for me."
I figured this about 3-4 minutes in, this is hilarious, and why I don't have one of those devices.
I ended up getting this for the wrong reason.
When I was living in CA, I had multiple Amazon Echos, they all were on the same system and had the correct information, except one, which was still on the same system but adamantly believed it was in Dallas and refused to be reprogrammed, so we just had one device that would give the wrong time and weather whenever asked
"Exploits of a Mom" and Little Bobby Tables. classic
When he said something like "did it come from the news", I thought he had solved it. I was confused, why they kept going around in circles again. 😅
They should make it so Alexa/Siri only accept orders if they recognize the voice of the person associated with the account. I mean, yeah, maybe a few random people might sound just like the newscaster, but it would lower the chances significantly.
Alternately, the news could filter for the words Alexa and Siri and beep them out like vulgarity. That would probably take a couple seconds delay, but for unidirectional information like a news broadcast that might work. The delay would probably be too much for something like Zoom though. (That would be a fun way to prank people in a Zoom call... imagine a classroom Zoom call and one person wants to be mischievous...)
hell yeah Ella rocking that King Gizzard merch
Honestly Amazon should start getting sued for this. If you gave your information to a travel agent and they heard you said "Yeah I kind of like beaches I been thinking about that" and then the agent books 7 different vacations at beaches and precharges your card for it they'd be getting sued for a lot of money.
Not gonna happen because...
1) You can opt out of voice purchasing, so it was your choice to have the function enabled (and you can turn off/on the microphone at any time with a button on the speaker)
2) The moment it happens, Alexa tells you it has happened (so you can cancel it before you are charged, which for items sold by Amazon is when they are dispatched)
3) You can return the item and get a refund.
4) it's probably covered by the small print that everyone has to agree to when setting up an account.
With regards to (2) I'm guessing that most of the people who received the items hadn't been in the room when it happened (they'd left the news on as they did other things around the house)
The guests on this show get the most crazy answers ever. But my goodness it was painful how long it took to work out the news part of this 😂
The 3:45 bit had me cackling
I literally can't overstate how much I love this specific cast and how much Ella is definitely the most huggable, squishable person ever. I would literally give the world to that girl.
It seems dumb to me that there is no confirmation required. Or any attempt to detect if it's the voice of an authorized user.
A friend's one year old got used to asking Alexa for things (with no credit card attached, because the parents weren't dumb), and was also going through a mild bubble wrap obsession.
So her parents come into her room I've day to hear her listening to some pretty aggressive rap music. And then realized that baby had probably asked Alexa to play her bubble wrap.
Reminds me of a funny video recently of someone trying to order pizza via a Chinese AI bot... you'd have to understand Chinese to get the jokes, but it escalated pretty hilariously
That's why I renamed my Alexa. Friends can't do daft sh1t while I'm not in the room!
Meanwhile your friends in the other room:
"Hey Aaron! ...
Hey Abraham ...
Hey Adam! ..."
@@FilmscoreMetaler They have a way to go until they get to Ziggy!
I don't get it how anyone can be comfortable having a device that's able to confirm purchases via voice recognition that easily.
Any chance of us getting full length video episodes ever, Tom? Personally I'm not into podcasts, or audiobooks and so on, they just don't really fit into my life I suppose. But I enjoy the show very much and it would be wonderful to be able to watch it, as you would any other gameshow. Or maybe something like a monthly 'best bits' episode, perhaps?
It's worth hearing the podcast if you like them. But the videos on this channel really are the highlights
i like how they used tim robinson from ITYSL in the thumbnail (most likely accidental)
intentional ;)
TV and radio news writers should randomly include ‘Alexa’ in scripts. Not often, just every now and again. Just to keep people on their toes.
So you ask for a dollhouse and it just orders a random dollhouse? Don’t people want to choose what they buy?
And this is one of many reasons to not let the AI assistant have financial privileges..
Gee, d'you think there maybe ought to be more steps to making a purchase than just some random person vaguely saying to the air "Alexa, order a rum-tee-tum"? Do you think maybe there should be some kind of confirmation process to approve the purchase and say "Yes, I do want to spend money on this"? It'd be crazy to just develop a device that can spend arbitrary amounts of your money by mistake, wouldn't it?
Haven't watched the video yet, but is the question "why did they receive a dollhouse?" or "why were they surprised?"
Immidiate guess was that she has done something nice or posted some video saying she wanted one, and as a reward the company wanted to send her a doll house but didnt know the adress so sent one to eveyrone with her name.
My guess: Ask for and receive? Was it a child on the radio and Alexa picked it up and ordered it when the show was replayed?
SPOILERS:
Yes, but not quite. It was a TV show host who repeated the words on TV and Alexa picked it up.
... that's not the news broadcaster's fault. That's all on Amazon.
The actual Black Mirror we got:
spoilers
i cannot be the only person horrified that people making content on tv/the internet have to be careful about saying certain phrases just because that can make people buy things they dont want to buy. like this feels like the worst kind of advancement weve achieved as a society. put it back
Yeah +1
Tom carefully explaining the word that had been buzzed out -- except "Alexa" wasn't actually buzzed out here on the RUclips version :D
And now I've just taken delivery of a dolls house...
it's partially muted
al*xa
"Subscribe on your favorite podcast app instead of RUclips to not accidentally purchase doll houses."
Why do people give so many privileges with so few security checks?
Burger King had a TV ad that triggered android phones by saying OK Google what is the whopper burger. It played the rest of the ad by reading the wiki page about the whopper. It didn't last long. Google prevented the page from loading and others doctored the page in a way that was not in Burger King's best interest.
It sounds like a very flawed system if it can order you a doll house by accident... XD
Alexa doesn't ask for confirmation when ordering stuff?!
I know I've heard a story like this, don't know if it was the same one. So considerate of them not to speak the name that shall not be named.
Wait, was that doll house story THAT long ago that it's now a quiz question?
I think it’s just that Tom, Ella and Caroline are quite young, so it’s long enough ago that they were teenagers when we were reading the news stories about this, but it isn’t *that* long
Modern humanity: I don't like talking on the phone anymore, I communicate with my friends by text.
Also modern humanity: I want a computer that listens to me speak instead of accepting text input, no matter how inaccurate, unpredictable, invasive, or inconvenient it is, because it makes me feel like I'm in the future that Star Trek promised us.
Star Trek: Yeah that was more about including everything in the spoken dialogue for a TV show than a vision of progress necessarily.
Do not hesitate to say Alexa.
American news anchors act way too much like they're talk show hosts. I'm doubt this kind of thing would have happened in the UK, unless you were watching Good Morning on ITV or something.
During the covid-work-from-home fun times, I pranked some coworkers who had left their zoom open by saying 'Hey Alexa, add a catering pack of KY jelly to my shopping list', and listening happily as various Alexas in different houses all responded :)
Takes them a solid minute and a half to get from the word "news" to "the news said "Hey, Alexa..."
It took them too long to figure out the "female Alex" thing.
This seems like a failure of computer security. Alexa/Siri Recognize the identity of the person speaking before you try and accept orders.
4:55ish "sounds like the female version of 'Alex'" isn't that...... also Alex lol? (alexander/alexandra)
One of many, many reasons why it is a bad idea to have a device listening to everything you say.
5 min ago??? I need to take a break from RUclips 😭😭
It's 2024. I've zero respect for anyone keeping those spyware devices active in their home.
It was with the Make-a-wish foundation for something the company wasn't making anymore .
They agreed to make one for her but figured they might as well make more than one since they had to restart production?
What an absolute anchor.
For the last time, anything you put on that prompter, Burgundy will read!
When Ella answers with Alexa, it's not masked in any way. This must be something that Tom knew would be done in post, or maybe they never got around to it?
The volume is ducked down in the middle of the word, enough to stop it triggering -- David
@@lateralcast You’ll hear spectral filtering when Apple keynotes mention “Siri”
Why would anyone complain to the news station when it's 100 % their fault for using an Alexa in the first place? That's like shooting an arrow straight up, then when it falls back and hits you, you complain to gravity.
I've got 2 tickets to see the live recording of Lateral this Saturday 12th, due to circumstances I am now unable to come,
Does anyone want to take them off my hands? I've got 2 tickets
Is that Tim Robinson's alien biker in the thumbnail?
Second post (apart from the OP).