>>rbanff+(OP)
https://themighty.com/2017/11/amazon-alexa-helping-child-dis...

https://growingupbilingual.com/2018/tech-and-gadgets/8-ways-...

There are tons of examples on the net

>>rbanff+(OP)
This is what happens when children talk to Alexa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epyWW2e43UU

>>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.

Amusing example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MECcIJW67-M

>>rbanff+(OP)
According to a study reported in this article in Motherboard, children are easily peer pressured by robots.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3qqep/children-a...

When you add in the idea of their constant childhood pal being a device designed to sell them items from Amazon, it's quite worrying.

If you wanted to take a positive spin on it, you could see it as the possible beginnings of a form of digital post-scarcity centrally controlled economy communism, I suppose.

>>auslan+pv4
Maybe Mycroft?

https://mycroft.ai/

>>dang+q15
Probably not, given that nobody has managed to explain its supposed insight or wit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMqZ2PPOLik

>>elboru+IV4
A book provides multisensory learning through sight, touch sound and smell. Alexa being voice controlled provides only auditory stimulation and is going to be the least good tool for the job. http://faculty.ucr.edu/~aseitz/pubs/Shams_Seitz08.pdf

>>rbanff+(OP)
Interesting asymmetry: https://i.redd.it/rnoc8y7fjxg11.jpg