Follows you around the house in order to build a profile on you. Fucking spooky man. It will also "throw itself down a flight of stairs if presented an opportunity" though, so maybe start getting some steps in if you find yourself suddenly being stalked by this thing in a tech bros house. Or grab it by its antenna and shove it in a closet. Maybe both :think-about-it: .
This is vaporware but I think it does show we're less than 20 years out from humanoid domestic & commercial general purpose bots
I'm not excusing amazon for making this thing but if you buy one you're kinda getting what you deserve imo
You say that now, but we'll see who's laughing when the price drops and your mom gets you one for Christmas and you don't want to ruin the holiday with another one of your rants about capitalism so you quietly say thank you and take it home to shove in a drawer.
I think I'd be more concerned with how and why my mom is dropping a g on christmas gifts lmao
I'm just thinking of those Alexa devices... Amazon brings the price down around the holidays to the point where they must be losing money on the individual units. Pretty much everyone I know has gotten one as a gift at some point.
Who needs a dog that loves me when I can have a proto-murder machine that stalks me throughout my home and reports my and my loved ones’ innermost secrets to an evil mega corporation!
We're probably about 3 years away from a twee ED209 :agony-deep:
So is the weird thing that they have all that data? Or that they think they have the right to all that data?
instead of barking for five minutes like someone has kicked them when I get up to use the bathroom at 1:30am like my roommate's dog does, will this machine instead just call the cops/fire a lethal round into my skull from down the hallway?
