With the changing times, there is a huge change in the nature of everyday life. People have become subject to technology and are taking the help of technology in every small and big task. Over the past few years, Amazon Alexa, the virtual voice AI assistant, has become the friend of millions of people around the world. From helping out to setting an alarm, from having fun conversations to enhancing people’s knowledge, Alexa does everything. But what if Alexa becomes an enemy instead of a friend? Recently, such a case has come to the fore, in which Alexa put the life of an innocent at risk. A report has revealed that the Amazon Alexa bug has prompted the device to give a shocking answer to an innocent child’s question. A 10-year-old girl asked Alexa for a challenge. Alexa then challenges the girl to insert a coin into the wall’s electric plug socket. This dangerous challenge can also cause electric shock to the girl. The challenge was to put a coin in two electric plugs and touch it. However, the company has apologized for this and has updated its voice assistant Alexa to avoid such challenges in the future.
According to the information, the girl’s mother Kristin Livdahl recently shared information about the incident on Twitter. That said, my girl was completing a physical challenge given to her by a yoga teacher on YouTube. He once asked Alexa to give him a task or challenge because of bad weather outside. After that this whole incident happened.
While talking in this air, Amazon told news agency BBC that the voice assistant Alexa has been updated to prevent such activity in future. “Customers have confidence in everything we do and that the customer receives accurate, relevant and useful information,” he said in a statement. As soon as we came to know about this challenge, we took action.