Would you consider getting an amazon echo?

Burnsy

Burnsy

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I definitely don't because it would be rather useless to me. And plus there's the privacy concerns. Usually I don't think much about paranoid people like clara thinking everyone out there is listening to you but this device honestly does feels like irl spyware that's always listening to you.
Also talking to google assistant which is kind of similar satisfies most of my curiosity about AIs and what they can and can't do. If you've got a smart home or devices it can connect to I can see it being useful.
 
Nope I like peace and quiet and talking outloud and having a voice in your home seems like a pain. Plus it's a needless expense with everything else available just a couple of clicks away.
 
MadaraUchiha said:
Nope I like peace and quiet and talking outloud and having a voice in your home seems like a pain. Plus it's a needless expense with everything else available just a couple of clicks away.
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It's cool but personally I don't like mechanized voices it's just annoying. For now it's a gimmick but I guess a few years later it'll probably become a necessity of sorts.
 
Nooooope, its a nice thing but it does allow people to spy on you, open your home more to hacking incidents and I don't want things get to the point where you can't turn on a lamp without having to speak.
 
Demon_skeith said:
Nooooope, its a nice thing but it does allow people to spy on you, open your home more to hacking incidents and I don't want things get to the point where you can't turn on a lamp without having to speak.
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that's a good thing
you could use it to communicate inside your house and do the home locking by yourself
 
I wouldn't be too concerned about privacy like my phone and PC have a mic whats stopping people from listening in from there but I don't think it would be very useful for me.
 
Risk said:
I wouldn't be too concerned about privacy like my phone and PC have a mic whats stopping people from listening in from there but I don't think it would be very useful for me.
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it can control everything
if you are not concerned about security then, you should probably try to get it
 
Blackangel said:
it can control everything
if you are not concerned about security then, you should probably try to get it
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You need those other furniture accordingly man.
Things that can connect to a network
 
Blackangel said:
it can control everything
if you are not concerned about security then, you should probably try to get it
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My room has my bed and computer what could it possibly do that would be even remotely useful.
 
Risk said:
My room has my bed and computer what could it possibly do that would be even remotely useful.
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music and you can use it.
for ai talk too. it's very good at it and you won't feel bored
 
Blackangel said:
that's a good thing
you could use it to communicate inside your house and do the home locking by yourself
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It's not a good thing, I've read stories of people with smart thermostats being hacked and having their heat turned off or AC cranked up with the device itself made unresponsive after the temperature adjustment.

Sure its nice to control your home with one remote or voice command, but a person is screwed if a network is hacked into.
 
Blackangel said:
then what about talking to it?
it could be fun
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Yeah well I talked to siri for 10 mins when it was first a thing cant say I ever used it again after that and I don't even have an apple product anymore.
 
Risk said:
Yeah well I talked to siri for 10 mins when it was first a thing cant say I ever used it again after that and I don't even have an apple product anymore.
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i understand
you must have gotten bored of it and do you use cortana??
 
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