Will Alexa destroy our cognitive abilities in years to come?
Amazon Alexa is a virtual assistant which uses artifical intelligence to automate tasks, respond to real-time information, as well as reduce workload.
In the last year, Amazon sold over 100 million devices!
Imagine how many devices are now in our homes after 7 years of trading?
I have a confession...
I will admit that I'm techy and I have an Alexa device at home. I use it for reminders, alarms and checking the weather, as well as catching up on the news. I also know,
This is a fascinating subject. The effects of our environment on our cognitive ability is a long standing issue. For example, before the invention of printing human memory capacity was much greater than it is today. Similarly, and more recently, the appearance of calculators has depleted mental arithmetic capacity (excepting those who play darts frequently!).
Alexa is another stage in the “evolution”.
That’s a good point. I suspect it’s we also saw something similar when eBooks came along etc