Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment

Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment by hopler on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:25AM (#18734327)

Did I read that right? Amazon handed control of Alexa to a group of students running a non secured server on the Internet?

That's OK if users explicitly opted in, but I doubt Amazon warned users about that.

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Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment by brianlweiner on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:34AM (#18734382)

The email introducing the feature (May 2017) described it as follows:

`Get an inside peek at the Amazon-sponsored university competition to advance AI. The Alexa Prize "socialbots" are in early development and understandably rough around the edges. Help students develop more engaging AI by striking up a conversation and providing feedback. To get started, just ask: Alexa what's a socialbot? Alexa let's chat`

The only interactions students would have access to was interactions that occurred via the chatbot

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Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment by behringer on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:45AM (#18734498)

So wait, should I be outraged or not? I'm so confused.

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Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment by Maken on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:49AM (#18734524)

Ask Alexa.

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Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment by dwighttk on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:40AM (#18734453)

Users had to say “Alexa let’s chat” to interact with the chatbots.

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