Alexa: The automated house guest - BBC Newsnight

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Channel: BBC Politics · 2017 · News & Politics

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Amazon's intelligent personal assistant, Alexa, can turn your music up, turn your heating down, and answer questions on just about anything she understands. But are you quite ready to welcome her into your home? David Grossman reports.

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