Here's the one question you probably shouldn't ask Amazon's Alexa
Wow!
Last updated 1st May 2019
Voice activated devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home are growing in popularity, but of course there are some questions which can send them a little loopy!
Most of the time you'll be asking your digital assistant if you can listen to your favourite radio station, such as "Listen to Tay FM", or "What is the weather like tomorrow?". However, just once in a while it's great to have a bit of fun with them by asking some funny or confusing questions.https://vozlab.co.uk/
We've heard the usual questions like "Will you marry me?", "Who is your father?" and "How much wood can a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"...
But now a video that has recently emerged online, where Alexa has been asked "What’s 10 to the power of 308?".
As the answer to the question contains A LOT of zeros, Alexa duly starts to read out zeros one at a time in her monotone voice. However, she soon gets quicker and quicker, before sounding rather frantic! Switching at one point from zero to just 'o'.
Watch Alexa's reaction to being asked the question below.
Poor Alexa!
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Amazon released their Echo device in 2014 and since then the Amazon Echo, along with its digital assistant Alexa, has increased in popularity. Alexa can be asked all types questions including a few 'Easter Eggs' programmed into the system.
Why not try, "Alexa, I Am Your Father" or "Alexa, Are You Skynet?" referring to the artificial intelligence 'mind' in the Terminator films.
There are also a number of techie Easter Eggs in Google, Google Maps and IMDB, you can read about them here.
Don't forget you can listen to your favourite radio station Tay FM through your Amazon Echo, just ask Alexa!