One mom had a good laugh this week, as she overheard her son's late-night conversation with Alexa over their baby monitor, "Alexa, I need Daddy," he asked the Amazon device when he woke up in the middle of the night. Alexa replied, "I've added daddy to your shopping list, is there anything else?"

"Um, no."

Move over virtual assistants, virtual nannies are the next big thing.