You Really Can Make Amazon’s Alexa Critique Food in the Voice of Gordon Ramsay — Pop Culture

One of the most fun Super Bowl commercials from Sunday night's game was a celebrity-studded ad for Amazon's Alexa. The premise of the ad was that Alexa lost her voice, and Amazon brought in celebrities to be back-up voices. It sounds like it'd be a cool idea at first, but the problem became immediately apparent when the first user tried to ask Alexa for a grilled cheese sandwich recipe, and the voice of Gordon Ramsay started howling at him from his Amazon Echo.

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