Amazon's 'Alexa Answers' is a hot mess, surprising exactly no one

Alexa Answers is somehow turning out even worse than expected. 

The program, launched in September, gives any idiot off the streets of the U.S. the chance to answer real questions posed to Amazon's Alexa smart assistant by actual people. As any thinking internet user might have expected, just over a month into the service those answers range from unintentionally inaccurate, to deliberate trolling, to calculated misinformation. 

According to Amazon, here's how Alexa Answers is supposed to work: "Discover questions Alexa doesn't have an answer for, submit your own and share them with the world." Read more...