Alexa's laughing bug


Bloomberg:

In the past few days, some users of Echo home speakers running Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa voice-based digital assistant have reported hearing strange laughing noises at random. Some people have said the laughter happened in response to unrelated commands, while others reported that it occurred unprompted.

Amazon confirmed on Wednesday that in rare circumstances, the voice assistant can mistakenly hear the phrase "Alexa, laugh," which under its normal programming would trigger it to chuckle. By late in the day, the company said it had deployed a software update to the speaker that fixed the problem.

Yeah, that's creepy. The kid's toys would go off on their own for no apparent reason, especially at night, and that's weird. Some AI spybot laughing on its own would definitely be unsettling.