Is technology getting frightening?

[Dave]

It's getting creepy, apparently. 

Amazon working to fix Alexa after users report random burst of 'creepy' laughter

What I wouldn't give to know what Alexa finds so funny!

That there are people geeky and gorky enough to spend money on such things?

(Hey! "Geeky & Gorky" good title for a spoofy comedy series about a couple of techno freaks? Now, whivh one will I audition for?)

[My friend Jane is a non-technology-knowledgeable  gadgeteer, she has a "random" robot" lawn mower, a Roomba type floor cleaner, three Amazon TV stick thingies, six or seven different computers/tablets/phones and a couple of other gizmos. She asked me about the Echo but when I told her she would need enabled devices, like expensive light and power switches etc, to make full use of it she decided it was a gizmo too far.]