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January 18, 2017

When home concierge systems listen a little too well… That’s the issue multiple Amazon Echo  owners  encountered when several systems heard a line on the news and took it as a command to order a dollhouse.  Among other things, Echo’s “Alexa” is designed to make purchases on behalf of its owner or anyone in the house who commands it to do so, says Robert Hackett in Amazon Echo’s Alexa Went Dollhouse Crazy.  Presumably, Alexa went straight to Amazon to fulfill the misunderstood statement.  Whether any of the attempted purchases went through remains a mystery.