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Amazon's Alexa Virtual Assistant Can Now Order Millions of Prime Products For You (thenextweb.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Amazon added a new skill for its voice assistant Alexa on Friday, and it could help the e-commerce giant add even more revenue to its already billions in yearly sales from selling everything from toilet paper to toothpaste. With today's update, now you can tell Alexa you want to buy any one of its tens of millions of items that are sold on Amazon. The one caveat is that the item must be a Prime product, meaning it is fulfilled by Amazon and can be shipped to shopper's doorsteps within two days or less. So if your daughter or son wants a Elsa doll from Disney's Frozen movie, you simply ask, "Alexa, please order the Elsa doll from Frozen," and Alexa will suggest a toy that fits that description. You then say "yes" to continue the transaction, and Alexa will take care of charging your credit card, and shipping the product to your home. Quartz posted a story in early June in which it documents several concerns from parents that Amazon Echo is conditioning the kids of this generation to be rude.
Keyboard and mouse work just fine.
please gimme a blowjo. Thank you.
In 20 years, that might actually not be out of the question...
My wife joked that she wouldn't mind an Alexa sex robot, because unlike a real girlfriend, Alexa would have an off switch. :)
We always need more and more stuff, until we live on a mound of immediately obsolete consumer goods and (apparently, thanks Alexa!) rolls of lavatory paper.
On y va, qui mal y pense!
I fully understand why amazon does this: To avoid people like me...
I hate when stores keeps payment info! I actually like having to get my cards from my wallet, in my jacket, hanging in another room.
Why? Because half the time I realize I do not need what I was about to purchase anyway. Or realize that I should search for a better deal on a cheaper site...
That habit saves me a lot of money and I have less stuff that I never use anyway...
What happens when you leave your TV on near your unattended echo and the advert script runs like ...
Not entirely improbable - the ad showing the gullible how easy it is to buy their stuff
It arrives and you dispute that you ordered it
Alexa.. Buy milipede for the atari 2600.
"Yes sir. Buying a million pads for the atari 2600".
... given that (at least in countries other than the US, including, but probably not limited to, UK and Germany) Amazon's search engine doesn't even let you combine two search words with a logical 'and', generating dozens and hundreds of result pages full of the stupidest stuff. Even more funny is that it claims it does, while it has been that way for many years...
"Can Now Order Millions of Prime Products For You" whether you want it to or not.
From the summary: The one caveat is that the item must be a Prime product, meaning it is fulfilled by Amazon and can be shipped to shopper's doorsteps within two days or less.
Prime doesn't always mean "two days or less". More and more Prime items are being quoted 4-6 days or longer, and I've had several Prime items arrive more than a week after ordering over the past year.
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Else instead of "can" it would be "does". Whether you want to or not.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
... but I'll wager that canceling an order placed by mistake still requires logging on to the website — and if the Marketing and consumer behavior experts have anything to say about it, you can expect that process to eventually grow longer and more tedious, to help encourage people not to cancel: "That would take so long, and it's only fifteen bucks ..."
In any case, stand by for the inevitable headline about someone whose kid plays around and orders $10k worth of toys on Amazon without the parent even realizing it ...
Trump 2016
You are welcome on my lawn.
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What does this have to do with a home automation gadget?
My wife joked that she wouldn't mind an Alexa sex robot, because unlike a real girlfriend, Alexa would have an off switch. :)
She hasn't thought through the fact that this makes it unlike a wife as well, eh
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I know this sounds bad; but I am a middle aged man, I am not going to make new friends. I am not allowed to have a dog. I wanted something that I could come home and chat with. Yes, something that would remember to wake me up and discuss movies, books, and games with me.
I realize it will never be a person; I am well aware of chat-bot limitations. However, with more and more single households, I can see a demand for something like this. To deny the market is to ignore a market.
Did anyone think Alexa was created just to make life better for humanity?
More and easier ways to spend my money, woo hoo!
Oh, wait.....
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
She hasn't thought through the fact that this makes it unlike a wife as well, eh
No, a girlfriend is a toy, a wife is a life mate...
No robot could ever replace my wife, she is my soul mate and I love her every waking minute...
But she can't pole dance to save her life. :) (and yes, she tried, even took classes, cause she loves me!)
Would she care if I had a pole-dancing sexy robot? No, she really wouldn't.
Would she care if I had a pole-dancing sexy girlfriend? Yes, she really would.
The difference, to use her words... "the robot doesn't want to become your wife, the girlfriend will".