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Topic: Alexa

Amazon gives option to disable human review of Alexa recordings

Matt Day -
The new policy allows Amazon customers to opt out of human review of their voice recordings amid criticism it violated customers’ privacy.

Amazon is being sued for allegedly using voice software pioneer’s technology in Alexa

Matt Day -
A complaint said Alexa and Echo were strikingly similar to the patented technology that voice software developer VoiceBox Technologies showed Amazon in 2011.

Siri, Cortana, Alexa: Why our AIs have personalities and a female voice

James Vlahos -
Conversation designers widely report that people flirt with, sexually proposition, and even harass bots.

Is Alexa always listening? New Amazon patent seems to suggest so

Stephen L. Carter -
An Alexa that’s always listening will likely prove more useful than an Alexa that isn’t. And, in any case, always-on devices are certainly our future.

Amazon to let Alexa users delete voice commands in privacy push

Matt Day -
A set of updates offers users the ability to say ‘Alexa, delete everything I said today’, or, in a coming update, delete their most recent utterance.

Amazon’s Alexa reviewers can access home addresses of customers

Matt Day -
Amazon says access is highly controlled, regularly audited and it has a zero tolerance policy for abuse of such internal tools & systems.

The Brexit black hole, and eavesdropper Alexa

Achyut Mishra -
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Thousands of Amazon workers are listening to what you tell Alexa

Matt Day -
Amazon's team comprises employees under non-disclosure contracts working in outposts like Boston, Costa Rica, India and Romania and processing as many as 1,000 audio clips per shift.

Siri and Alexa are helping the world become a more literate place

Christopher Cannon -
Lessons from history tell us literacy has always emerged from oral traditions.
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Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Udit Bubna -
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

Defence

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

National Interest

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

Shekhar Gupta -
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.

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