“Skynet smiles”
\nNow, what other dangerous things are hidden within this program, and Amazon ‘isn’t aware of’?<\/p>\n
Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny<\/a><\/p>\n Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it “challenged” a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for a “challenge to do”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n “Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs,” the smart speaker said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Amazon said it fixed the error as soon as the company became aware of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The girl’s mother, Kristin Livdahl, described the incident on Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n She said: “We were doing some physical challenges, like laying down and rolling over holding a shoe on your foot, from a [physical education] teacher on YouTube earlier. Bad weather outside. She just wanted another one.”<\/p>\n That’s when the Echo speaker suggested partaking in the challenge that it had “found on the web”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The dangerous activity, known as “the penny challenge”, began circulating on TikTok and other social media websites about a year ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Metals conduct electricity and inserting them into live electrical sockets can cause electric shocks, fires and other damage.<\/p>\n “I know you can lose fingers, hands, arms,” Michael Clusker, station manager at Carlisle East fire station, told The Press newspaper in Yorkshire<\/a>\u00a0in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n “The outcome from this is that someone will get seriously hurt.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Fire officials in the US<\/a>\u00a0have also spoken out against the so-called challenge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n However, she said her daughter was “too smart to do something like that”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Amazon told the BBC in a statement that it had updated Alexa to prevent the assistant recommending such activity in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n “Customer trust is at the centre of everything we do and Alexa is designed to provide accurate, relevant, and helpful information to customers,” said Amazon in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n “As soon as we became aware of this error, we took swift action to fix it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Skynet smiles” Now, what other dangerous things are hidden within this program, and Amazon ‘isn’t aware of’? Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it “challenged” a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug. The suggestion came after … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-they-made-a-movie-about-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75654,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75653\/revisions\/75654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}