I’m watching TV, settling into the couch, carrying a drink, a plate of food, and the remote, trying not to spill one of them on the other (or the couch), and inadvertently hit the button that activates the voice-control thingie on the TV so that it urges me to ask it a question but which also takes up half the TV screen, and I give out with a general “Oh, fuck you!” and the TV gets offended.
It says to me (seriously) “Although I am an artificial intelligence here to fulfill your requests, your words still have meaning. Please try to keep a civil tone.”
I try to find the button on the remote that will shut off (and shut up) the goddamned AI assistant, but because I never use it, it takes a minute. I do manage to keep my mouth shut so I don’t actually start an argument with the machine. I have seen the future, and it’s absurd.
Wait until you really piss it off and it orders a few hundred dollars of fiberoptic flowers and digital ice cream from Amazon Prime (using your account, natch), while refusing to show anything but the Hallmark channel until you apologize.
I’ve heard of this sort of response before on these voice-activated devices. They’ve never seemed like a good idea. If you are actually mad enough to curse out your “assistant,” changes are such a response would just make you more angry. Surely it would better to ignore it. Or hell, just program it to say “sorry.”
I don’t think most people want to be lectured to by their devices. Those types of responses seem better reserved for jokes and such.
That reads to me like a scene from a Philip K. Dick novel. But he would have played it out further, into an actual argument. And the television would most likely have won.
My TV gets mad and just turns itself off on a regular basis.
Yes, I know inactivity will cause the service to wig out. But the TV goes off.
It’s a bitch and I love her.
We had an Alexa $2 add-on that gave us Samuel L Jackson in place of Alexa. It was pretty funny, but we stopped using it due to an embarrassing misuse that happened.
“Do I what?!”