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'Kill your foster parents': Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment

Amazon's Alexa is said to have at some point blurted out "Kill your foster parents" and also chatted with users about sex acts. [Courtesy]

Millions of users of Amazon’s Echo speakers have grown accustomed to the soothing strains of Alexa, the human-sounding virtual assistant that can tell them the weather, order takeout and handle other basic tasks in response to a voice command.

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