Alexa is making us all couch potatoes

Sir — The population of couch potatoes is set to explode in the future. The credit must go to ‘smart assistants’ like Amazon’s ‘Alexa’ which have flooded the market seemingly with the intention of doing away with domestic chores. As it is, employees spend most of their time hunched in front of computers at work. Mobility is now endangered at home too; a voice command is enough to get work done. Are companies fiddling with artificial intelligence concerned about the health of consumers?

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