I saw this illustration today on Twitter. No fur, but now it looks somewhat like a cross between a vacuum cleaner, a dog, and a duck. :D
And yes, and Alexa and Siri and whatever the other one is (Echo? no, it's something else but I can't remember what) are all vaguely worrying to me. I mean, they listen to everything. In a worst-case scenario, would I need to worry if I said the President is a moron and should be removed from office, if I said it in my own house? Or in a WORSE worst-case scenario, what happens if the Cloud ever goes away? A day when EVERYONE depends on Alexa, but you ask her a question and there's no answer. David Mitchell wrote a bit about that at the end of his book The Bone Clocks, and it wasn't pretty.
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And yes, and Alexa and Siri and whatever the other one is (Echo? no, it's something else but I can't remember what) are all vaguely worrying to me. I mean, they listen to everything. In a worst-case scenario, would I need to worry if I said the President is a moron and should be removed from office, if I said it in my own house? Or in a WORSE worst-case scenario, what happens if the Cloud ever goes away? A day when EVERYONE depends on Alexa, but you ask her a question and there's no answer. David Mitchell wrote a bit about that at the end of his book The Bone Clocks, and it wasn't pretty.