I am not tech savvy and first time i heard about Alexa was in the series Mr Robot (i like those conspiracy type things) where a lonely FBI agent after a hard days work goes home and calls out Alexa http://Alexa,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaY9zt_qx_c a round device needing a Wi-Fi access to give you an answer for anything which is not abstract…. so you have something to talk to incase you are feeling lonely.
I found this article in WSJ on the same. Very interesting ..
A FRIEND TOLD me about a recent playdate that took an unexpected turn. The 7-year-old boys thought it would be funny if they asked a burning question of Amazon’s Alexa, the voice-activated assistant built into the Echo speaker that the family had recently purchased. “Alexa, what is poop?” said one child.
After a pause, the speaker gamely replied: “Defecation is the final act of digestion, by which organisms eliminate solid, semisolid, and/or liquid waste material from the digestive tract via the anus.” (The definition comes from Wikipedia.). Analysts estimate that Amazon has sold six million Alexa-cabable since launch.
It’s truly very complex in this busy life to listen news on TV, so I only
use web for that reason, and obtain the latest news.