Alexa's Future as a Crime-Fighting Virtual Cop Is Still Far Away

Gizmodo ---------- A police department in Britain has started using Amazon’s Alexa to broadcast daily briefings in people’s homes, with the longterm goal of making the smart assistant a key part of the police force. “The work that we’re doing now is first and foremost our ability to push out information to the public that they may want and need,” Rob Flanagan, head of Innovation for Lancashire Police, told Gizmodo. “So this may be missing persons, it may be people who are wanted, it may be to alert them to things that are going on in the local community. So essentially, what you can say to Alexa is ‘give my my briefing’ and [it] will read to them anything we put out that we want the public to know.” To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.