![]() The Sussmans found out about the setting a year after buying the device. Amazon lets users change the wake word to “Echo,” “Amazon,” or, starting this week, “computer.”īut many users aren’t aware. The microphones in the $180 Amazon Echo and the smaller $50 Echo Dot are always listening for “Alexa,” which is their default “wake word,” the phrase causing it to start paying attention to commands. Sussman himself: “Go to the Bluetooth devices on your mobile device.” When he told his daughter to move the living-room chair, Amazon’s Alexa yelped, “Ready to pair!” Robo-Alexa had a command for Mr. In the Alexa smartphone app, you can change the Echo's wake word from "Alexa” to something else. “Amazon’s choice for water is Fiji Natural Artesian Water, pack of 24. Last week, when human Alexa’s father, Dean, asked her to grab some water from the kitchen, Amazon’s Alexa wanted to help, too. In the Sussmans’ household in Levittown, N.Y., the confusion cuts both ways. That means in some homes the plan has backfired: The effort to make a gadget more humanlike has earned it human enemies. Google opted to keep its software nonhuman, calling it “Assistant.”)Ĭhoice, as it happens, was the 39th most popular girl’s name in the U.S. In hopes of getting us used to our new artificially intelligent family members, the technology companies behind them have given the machines mostly female names to go with their soothing voices. The artificial-intelligence invasion is upon us, in the form of disembodied personal assistants we can give orders to, query and, in some cases, try to converse with. ![]()
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