Alexa could use a little tweaking 2-A wise

More accurate than reporters.

A computer program mirrors the ideas of the person/group programming it. This loosely executed example of supposed IA just proves that the group responsible has an agenda to push. Getting it 2A correct and factual would be a good first step. Although even some important judges seem to have a hard time with the same concept----sigh! Do you suppose if we all complained things would become more factual?

berettaprofessor said:

Now if we could just work on her understanding of assault rifles....

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Well, she bungled the definition of “assault rifle”, but otherwise she was mostly right in her response regarding assault rifles. A real AK-47 is an assault rifle, and the original Armalite AR-15 was an assault rifle.

The makers of the AI called Alexa should strive to have correct information , not an agenda.
even is the programmers don't like Ar`s, AK`s or the 2A.

My post disappeared. Guess I was off topic. Sorry. To be back on topic, you can't expect better from a device programmed by those that aren't necessarily experts at 2A.

old lady new shooter said:

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I always thought that PT Barnum said that..?

Regarding the Siri/Alexis stuff, I would imagine that the programmers just used the simple definitions for their sources. I can't imagine them hanging out at a shooting range or gun shop to gather data.. ?

Shanghai McCoy said:

I can't imagine them hanging out at a shooting range or gun shop to gather data.. ?

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Don’t forget, they’re in WA, not CA

She seems to be pretty spot on to me. Painted with a pretty broad brush, but at least close enough for Horseshoes and Hand Grenades.

I’m honestly surprised, the real test.....Ask it who the NRA is.

buck460XVR said:

She seems to be pretty spot on to me. Painted with a pretty broad brush, but at least close enough for Horseshoes and Hand Grenades.

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Exactly. Her two examples of assault rifles were actually technically correct, even though her definition of the term “assault rifle” was vague and wasn’t the correct technical definition.

No matter what Alexa says about the 2A, guns or the NRA it is an "it" not a she or a her.

Exactly ,I have enough uneducated people feeding me their opinions on my firearms and rights. IMHO I will not own or listen to a machine parroting more opinions.I know my rights

This is a complicated thing to keep "on topic."

Alexa, like Siri, is not a person. Neither are an "AI" either. Both are voice-activated search engines with a text-to-voice response. Alexa is only as smart as the google search "she" is connected to.

So, OP's premise is flawed.

No matter what motives we ascribe an prove) to Alphabet, google's parent, the reality is that people of every ilk, kind, even nation, create search responses. Those responses "inform" the rest of the system, and it is to this that Alexa "responds."

In "our" community, we are significantly better read and informed on laws, rights, and the like than persons without. We have to be--the law requires us to be utterly lawful or lose our rights. So, the answers which might suffice for others are no where near as precise as "we" require.

Cna "we" make the information systems smarter on "our" issues? I don't know. It's very like a much larger debate for a different platform than this. We are something of a minority. And the following trusim applies:

Internet: A sytem which makes the intelligent moreso; and also the unintellignet equally moreso.

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