Alexa might have been the cause of the electrocution of a 10-year old girl if her mother hadn't discovered what was going on in time to prevent it from happening.
For example, three months ago if you asked Google Search what to do after a seizure, the search response would be,"Hold the person down or try to stop their movements. Put something in the person's mouth (this could cause tooth or jaw injuries. Administer CPR or other mouth-to-mouth breathing during the seizure. Give the person food or water until they are alert again."Hold the person down or try to stop their movements.
So what was happening here was that Google was telling people who just had a seizure that it was fine for them to do the things that they should not be doing which in turn could have led to a much more serious problem. Sometimes the problem isn't that Google screwed up the answer, but that it got the illness wrong in the first place. In one situation Google gave results for orthostatic hypotension when the user was searching for orthostatic hypertension.
The former is a form of low blood pressure that occurs when a person is sitting or lying down and then stands up. The latter is a"sustained increase in systolic blood pressure that occurs within three minutes after someone stands up. Obviously, both are different and Google confused one for the other. Not exactly in the same vein, a Twitter user posted that if you search for the best selling Bluetooth transmitter on Amazon, you'll see the best-selling Bluetooth receiver.
fun fact: according to amazon, the best-seller for the search"bluetooth transmitter" is a bluetooth receiver.
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