Technology and Toddlers (and Porn)

Half a century ago, The Jetsons promised children an amazing future of technological progress.  And today that future is being realized, if albeit imperfectly.  Exhibit one is Amazon which has produced an app many of you may be familiar with, Alexa.  This from Wiki:

Alexa is an intelligent personal assistant developed by Amazon.com‘s Lab126, made popular by the Echo. It is capable of voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic and other real time information. Alexa can also control several smart devices using itself as a home automation hub. Most devices with Alexa allow users to activate the device using a wake-word (such as Echo), other devices require you to push a button in order to activate listening-mode.

Isn’t the march of technology amazing.  Yet we are not quite at the Jetson’s promised future of seamless automation.  One of the problems is apparently the inability of Alexa to precisely understand the muddled diction of toddlers:

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I’d say they still have a few bugs to work out.