PhotoFor weeks, users of Amazon’s digital assistant, Alexa, have reported versions of the same unsettling event: being startled as they went about their day by Alexa letting out an eerie laugh. Now, Amazon says that it knows why that’s been happening and is working to fix the problem. “In rare circumstances, Alexa can mistakenly hear the phrase ‘Alexa, laugh,’” when other words are spoken, Amazon said in an emailed statement. Finding nothing, he asked Alexa to repeat the last sound she had made. Another Twitter user reported being startled by Alexa’s laugh, at first thinking there was a child in the room.

Source: New York Times March 08, 2018 21:45 UTC