>>rbanff+(OP)
Alexa should be treated as a different kind of stranger. I think it's a huge mistake for children to talk to computers. It's inherently dishonest for a single voice to represent something so manipulative and fluid as if it's a person.
>>jakeog+pc4
It's not amusing at all. It's incredibly spot on. Alexa has very limited knowledge and 0 interpretation skills, but, worse than all, behaves as if it does.
(note that, in a sense, a book has very limited knowledge and 0 interpretation skills, but its behaviour is passive).
>>wiz21c+3n4
I was in college before I learned not to believe everything I read. Everything needs context. I tell my kids that voice interactive devices are just robots running programs written by people, and they're always at least as wrong about things as the people who wrote them. Most importantly, don't trust a robot when it tells you something that doesn't make sense. It's probably wrong.
I wish somebody had told me that about books when I was a kid.