Hey, Alexa, Please Don't Kill Me...
To no one’s surprise, Amazon has a semi-secret hardware research and development division. It’s called Lab126, and if that isn’t upsetting enough, they are working on building a home robot.
That’s right, an Amazon-made domestic android is coming, some say as early as 2019, and its arrival will mark the beginning of a new dawn of mankind. Or it’s end, depending on the breaks.
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The project is codenamed “Vesta”, and the idea is to create a sort of mobile Echo device, something that will follow you around your home like a butler, waiting to perform some useful task. Details are hard to come by at the moment, but the initial versions of Vesta will probably be limited in what functions they can perform. It’s hard to imagine a robot-servant capable of tending to the household chores being affordable to anyone but Jeff Bezos himself. That, however, will likely change in time.
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For now it seems Vesta will be a glorified Roomba that can have a nice chat about the weather. It will also, of course, be able to eavesdrop on your conversations in every room, following you about from place to place, never giving you a moment of peace or privacy. It will learn your likes and dislikes, your habits, your vices, your sins and your deepest darkest fears, using this understanding against you, turning you into a product-buying, service-reliant flesh-servant beholden to your own true masters at Amazon.
But don’t worry about the spilled soda…Vesta’s got that. You just keep clicking that “buy now” button.
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Haha good read! This photo is so true!
Thanks for the smile this post has given me tonight!
I gotta say.. I do not like the future we are creating... It's a scary world out there..
This Is very creepy. Now the cameras in our devices can identify products in the background, figure out what your buying habits are and sell to you. My Phone has a new feature on the camera that will take a picture of an object and find it on Amazon and try to sell it to you. Kind of cool, kind of creepy. Do we want this? Maby but at what price.?
Latest technology is very good @writesbackwards, I hope "vista" perform his work with full attention.
From my point of view these are very helpful for human, but if we see in other side these are very dangreous for human.
Very good post, Thanks for sharing on steemit.
Im not too worried as of yet. What I will say, at the risk of being controversial, is that the moment we truly learn that something one of these robots overheard has resulted in some kind of damage to us, we can sue Amazon/Google/whichever. We’ll see.
If Alexa wasn't enough , well, here's another improved spy... Sadly
Even in a best case, those "assistants" are there to spy on you and report on you to their owners (Amazon, Google, whichever).
How does it know when you say "Hi Alexa" if the mic is not always on?
I just want to say that this is how we get skynet!
All it'd hear from me and my family are burps and farts...which may prompt it to order Beano.
We have all the necessary help from washing machines to floor cleaners to god know what else. For what do we need a robot for? Yeah! when this comes out we can get more obese, because then we can get the robot to make our food and serve it to our bed.