Kids judge Alexa smarter than Roomba, but say
Most kids know it’s wrong to yell or hit someone, but what if that someone is a robot named Alexa? A new study from Duke asked kids how smart and sensitive they thought the virtual assistant was compared to a robotic vacuum. Four- to eleven-year-olds rated Alexa as more intelligent than the Roomba but felt neither deserve to be yelled at or otherwise harmed.
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Source: eurekalert.org