Alexa Is a Human

#1

Post by Lavinski » Mon, Feb 03, 2020, 5:35 AM UTC

Alexa Is a Human
alexaisahuman.com

Re: Alexa Is a Human

#2

Post by ebcode » Mon, Feb 03, 2020, 6:54 AM UTC

I've never wanted a CEO to listen to something more than this.

Maybe someone here can come up with a better, non-human name?

Personally, I think "Slavebot" would be fairly appropriate.

Re: Alexa Is a Human

#3

Post by cable2600 » Mon, Feb 03, 2020, 7:02 AM UTC

ebcode wrote: post #2

I've never wanted a CEO to listen to something more than this. Maybe someone here can come up with a better, non-human name? Personally, I think "Slavebot" would be fairly appropriate.

"NSA Wiretap"

You can change the name in the Alexia app to anything you want as the keyword to activate it.

Re: Alexa Is a Human

#4

Post by ebcode » Mon, Feb 03, 2020, 9:04 AM UTC

cable2600 wrote: post #3

ebcode wrote: post #2

I've never wanted a CEO to listen to something more than this. Maybe someone here can come up with a better, non-human name? Personally, I think "Slavebot" would be fairly appropriate.

"NSA Wiretap" You can change the name in the Alexia app to anything you want as the keyword to activate it.

sure, but that's not the point of the letter. I've just finished reading the whole thing, and it honestly seems to me that those unfortunate enough to have been named Alexa by their parents should have their names legally changed. It seemed funny at first, but now it just seems like a travesty.

Re: Alexa Is a Human

#5

Post by bloak » Mon, Feb 03, 2020, 9:21 AM UTC

At https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/index.html you can query the "popularity" (meaning frequency) of a name by year. Alexa seems to have jumped in popularity from 2014 to 2015 and fallen since then, to its lowest level in this century, but not all that dramatically: even in 2018 it was the 90th most popular female name ("0.165 percent of total female births in 2018"; "0.311 percent of total female births in 2015").

Amazon Alexa was announced in November 2014, says Wikipedia, so it makes sense: in 2015 people will have heard the name a lot but not yet understood the implications.