How would you feel if a digital assistant suggested plugging in? This is what Amazon Alexa suggested as a challenge to a 10-year-old girl.
An owner of an Amazon Echo smart device was shocked when Alexa offered her 10-year-old daughter a dangerous challenge.
Για όσους δεν γνωρίζουν στις διάφορες έξυπνες συσκευές υπάρχουν πλέον "εικονικοί βοηθοί με τεχνητή νοημοσύνη", όπως η Alexa. Τέτοιες συσκευές μπορεί να είναι ηχεία όπως το Echo, ή το Echo Dot και το Amazon Tap, τα οποία διαθέτουν πληθώρα δυνατοτήτων. Κάτι αντίστοιχο της Cortana που έχουν τα Windows ή του έξυπνου βοηθού της Google που υπάρχει στα phones Android.
The help offered by virtual assistants is usually voice commands, but also includes the ability for users to simply play verbally. gamea or ask for "challenges" on demand.
When the owner of such a device (Amazon Echo) has nothing to do and is bored, it is not uncommon to ask Alexa, "tell me a challenge to do." Usually in such an audio request the AI gives the user a quiz question or similar innocent activity.
But that was not the case for Kristin Livdahl's ten-year-old girlfriend, who offered her a rather deadly challenge:
«Η πρόκληση είναι απλή», είπε η Alexa. "Συνδέστε έναν φορτιστή τηλεφώνου σε μία πρίζα τοίχου και περίπου στα μισά της διαδρομής του φις, αγγίξτε με ένα σεντς στα εκτεθειμένα δόντια".
Fortunately, her mother was in front and prevented her from carrying out the challenge. The topic was uploaded to Twitter and went viral. and of course he reached out to Amazon where although he did not say what caused this behavior, he stated that the problem was fixed.
But it appears that the challenge response came automatically from Alexa, via a ourcommunitynews.com post from January 2020 that existed as part of a dangerous "outlet challenge" by TikTok then.
Note that plugging a telephone charger or any gadget "in half" into an electrical outlet and touching the metal with your hand is a risk of electric shock and fire due to sparks and electric arcs.
