[Politics] Big Brother 1st World problems

[Dave the OAP]

A couple of strange incidents happened this weekend.

My prospective son in law and my daughter were down and we were discussing wine as you do. He said that there was this really good wine app on the iphone that you scan the label and it will show you the wine and people's ratings. I happened to be looking at my iphone about 10 minutes later and I noticed a message saying did I want to load an app...it was the bloody wine app that we had been talking about!!!

next we were at the bother in laws and he was bought a Google alexa version thing that he has linked up around the house to various speakers etc....anyway we were talking about the brighton/palace match and it suddenly broke into the conversation and told us that the game was on Monday at 17:45 and there were still tickets available !!!!!

Seemly they listen to your conversations now! he was saying that they have programmed it to recognise voices and his wife can ask it about her calendar and it will tell her what she is doing and then he asks the same question straight after and it knows it is him and tells him what he is doing!!

This is all a bit Orwellian isn't it. I do like the way it will play whatever type of music you want...the apple version coming out is $350 in the US at the moment...which is a bit steep!!

Has anyone else had this or is it an old person thing?

 

[gullshark]

 

[1066familyman]

Millions of '1st World' people love to bug their own homes. If it wasn't the case then sales of these Alexa thingies and what not wouldn't be on the increase. Make of that what you will.

 

[BBassic]

I've got an Echo (Alexa) and I have found it to be a bit twitchy in terms of what it recognises as the 'wake' word.

As I understand it the device dedicates a small portion of its power to just listening for the word 'Alexa' and isn't just listening to the general conversations or noise of the house. However it's definitely woken up when I've said something that its construed as 'Alexa'.

 

[MattBackHome]

A couple of strange incidents happened this weekend.

My prospective son in law and my daughter were down and we were discussing wine as you do. He said that there was this really good wine app on the iphone that you scan the label and it will show you the wine and people's ratings. I happened to be looking at my iphone about 10 minutes later and I noticed a message saying did I want to load an app...it was the bloody wine app that we had been talking about!!!

next we were at the bother in laws and he was bought a Google alexa version thing that he has linked up around the house to various speakers etc....anyway we were talking about the brighton/palace match and it suddenly broke into the conversation and told us that the game was on Monday at 17:45 and there were still tickets available !!!!!

Seemly they listen to your conversations now! he was saying that they have programmed it to recognise voices and his wife can ask it about her calendar and it will tell her what she is doing and then he asks the same question straight after and it knows it is him and tells him what he is doing!!

This is all a bit Orwellian isn't it. I do like the way it will play whatever type of music you want...the apple version coming out is $350 in the US at the moment...which is a bit steep!!

Has anyone else had this or is it an old person thing?

Is the wine app any good?

 

[Easy 10]

I've got an Echo (Alexa) and I have found it to be a bit twitchy in terms of what it recognises as the 'wake' word.

As I understand it the device dedicates a small portion of its power to just listening for the word 'Alexa' and isn't just listening to the general conversations or noise of the house. However it's definitely woken up when I've said something that its construed as 'Alexa'.

Mine keeps waking up whenever I've got an Arsenal game on TV and someone says "Alexis Sanchez"

 

[pauli cee]

Had a strange one recently,
I was waiting at Worthing crossings, and got chatting to a woman I had vaguely noticed in the pub I had just left.
We only exchanged first names, a cigarette and a bit of chat, but strangely enough when I logged on to facebook the next day, she was right at the front of suggested friends, despite having never met her before that, and had no mutual friends.

Obviously she told me to do one, and called me pest, when I tried to contact her..........

 

[1066familyman]

Ssssh, they've got Alexa playing for them.

 

[pearl]

What if you live with a human being named Alexa too?

 

[Dave the OAP]

Is the wine app any good?

actually it really is. VIVINO it is called and it recognises most wine labels that I have ..ahem..scanned. Freebie too

 

[hans kraay fan club]

What if you live with a human being named Alexa too?

It would be a NIGHTMARE!*




*it wouldn't be a nightmare. (You don't have to have 'Alexa' set as the trigger word)

 

[Easy 10]

What if you live with a human being named Alexa too?

You can alter the wake word to Echo, Amazon or Computer.

 

[Yoda]

Had a strange one recently,
I was waiting at Worthing crossings, and got chatting to a woman I had vaguely noticed in the pub I had just left.
We only exchanged first names, a cigarette and a bit of chat, but strangely enough when I logged on to facebook the next day, she was right at the front of suggested friends, despite having never met her before that, and had no mutual friends.

Obviously she told me to do one, and called me pest, when I tried to contact her..........

Your Facebook apps probably picked up you were in the same location as her. That's all.

 

[BBassic]

You can alter the wake word to Echo, Amazon or Computer.

And if you have the Dot, I believe it can be altered to 'Dot'

 

[maffew]

What if you live with a human being named Alexa too?

You can change its name to Amazon or Echo.

Now if you had say a wife called Alexa, and a dog called Google, and a cat called Echo what better excuse could one wish for for a divorce

 

[studio150]

A couple of strange incidents happened this weekend.

My prospective son in law and my daughter were down and we were discussing wine as you do. He said that there was this really good wine app on the iphone that you scan the label and it will show you the wine and people's ratings. I happened to be looking at my iphone about 10 minutes later and I noticed a message saying did I want to load an app...it was the bloody wine app that we had been talking about!!!

next we were at the bother in laws and he was bought a Google alexa version thing that he has linked up around the house to various speakers etc....anyway we were talking about the brighton/palace match and it suddenly broke into the conversation and told us that the game was on Monday at 17:45 and there were still tickets available !!!!!

Seemly they listen to your conversations now! he was saying that they have programmed it to recognise voices and his wife can ask it about her calendar and it will tell her what she is doing and then he asks the same question straight after and it knows it is him and tells him what he is doing!!

This is all a bit Orwellian isn't it. I do like the way it will play whatever type of music you want...the apple version coming out is $350 in the US at the moment...which is a bit steep!!

Has anyone else had this or is it an old person thing?

If that machine told you the game was at 17:45 I would be demanding my money back its totally useless.

 

[Dave the OAP]

If that machine told you the game was at 17:45 I would be demanding my money back its totally useless.

haha...good spot...

 

[pearl]

You can change its name to Amazon or Echo.

Now if you had say a wife called Alexa, and a dog called Google, and a cat called Echo what better excuse could one wish for for a divorce

and Dot the hamster

 

[pauli cee]

Your Facebook apps probably picked up you were in the same location as her. That's all.

Cheers, didn't even know anything like that existed.......

 

[swindonseagull]

Is the wine app any good?

It will only be someone elses opinion of wine..who cares how its produced, how expensive it is or where its from as long as YOU like it.