Now any idiot off the street can answer your dumb Alexa questions

Why get paid literal pennies to do menial Mechanical Turk work for a mega corporation when you can do the same thing for free?

It is this very question, which Amazon apparently hopes you're too stupid to ponder, that is posed by the latest ham-fisted attempt to improve Alexa. Say hello to Alexa Answers, an Amazon program designed to let any idiot off the streets of the U.S. answer questions put to Alexa that somehow managed to stump the digital assistant. 

"Discover questions Alexa doesn't have an answer for," implores the program's launch page, "submit your own and share them with the world." Read more...