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> There's no way a team would get the "ok" to build a skill that randomly records private conversations then sends them to a random contact. And then builds exactly that...
Yeah, the skill may not be (and I'm sure it wasn't) intended to that, but it did, in fact, do it. Intentions don't really matter after the fact. It's a mistake, but it's a pretty bad one.
> But Danielle is hoping Amazon gives her a refund for her devices, which she said their representatives have been unwilling to do. Based on Amazon's admission and apologies, I'd think they'd be willing to give a lot more than just a refund. Seems like a huge liability for them.
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One reason you might want a server is to have more expressive power than "if someone literally enters the room, turn on the lights". You might want to turn on the lights and run the AC a little before you predict people will arrive, for example.
> One reason you might want a server is to have more expressive power than "if someone literally enters the room, turn on the lights". You might want to turn on the lights and run the AC a little before you predict people will arrive, for example. Maybe, but that seems like a lot of work for little gain. You probably don't actually have that much control over the AC in your rooms unless you have zoned heating and a l…
You would be collecting data from many sources in order to predict intent. This is why you need a centralized server.
I have this idea of a system I would like to have in my house. It contains cameras in every room that are constantly watching where people are and relaying the coordinates to a central server. That server makes decisions on if lights should be on or if A/C should be running in that room. But I would never buy this system. I would have to make it myself. I am hopeful that open source software and hardware can produce…
The Personal Cloud is what we should be building for ourselves. Servers running in your closet at your house.
I have this idea of a system I would like to have in my house. It contains cameras in every room that are constantly watching where people are and relaying the coordinates to a central server. That server makes decisions on if lights should be on or if A/C should be running in that room. But I would never buy this system. I would have to make it myself. I am hopeful that open source software and hardware can produce…
hackaday.com/blog/ will have some details on how people set up computer home controllers as well as working with OpenCV
This devices should by law always have a big LED on when recording, you would have the option to set it's brightness though. Also why could it send data out without any confirmation from the user.
A confirmation after every request makes the device a lot less useful, I suspect most people do not want the device to confirm commands before it does them.
* install device that is designed to listen to speech in the house
* the device is connected to internet
* the device is capable of contacting other internet peers/services/hosts
* the device knows a bit about its owner's internet presence such as contacts
* the device is equipped with simple conversational user interface based on fuzzy human speech-command detection
These basically bound the failure modes of the complete system. I am not surprised that a glitch like that happened. I can certainly attest to how shocking it might be to discover first hand that it really did happen, but given the context I can't say it's hard to not foresee something like this.
I have this idea of a system I would like to have in my house. It contains cameras in every room that are constantly watching where people are and relaying the coordinates to a central server. That server makes decisions on if lights should be on or if A/C should be running in that room. But I would never buy this system. I would have to make it myself. I am hopeful that open source software and hardware can produce…
There's a whole class of tech like this for me. An Alexa/Echo/etc, a fitness tracker with GPS and sleep monitoring, a maps program that learns my routine and integrates with a weather app, and so on. And ideally? All of it integrated. It actually sounds nice to say "I'm going home", and have Maps say "today that will take 35, should your oven start preheating when you're 20 minutes out?" IoT devices are overrated, bu…
Not yet preheating the oven though :)
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Not sure about Android phones with "Ok Google" but on iOS, all of Siri's voice processing is on the device. As opposed to Amazon Alexa which sends the data to the cloud for processing.
Siri does speech recognition on Apple’s servers, but commands are performed on the device. The server doesn’t know who you are.
I have this idea of a system I would like to have in my house. It contains cameras in every room that are constantly watching where people are and relaying the coordinates to a central server. That server makes decisions on if lights should be on or if A/C should be running in that room. But I would never buy this system. I would have to make it myself. I am hopeful that open source software and hardware can produce…