Here’s an Ethical Open-Source Alternative to Alexa
Why I gave my voice to Mycroft A.I.
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7 min readMar 18, 2020
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When I was young, my parents gave me cassette tapes of old-time radio broadcasts to listen to. One of my favorites was a 1948 episode of Quiet Please. In “The Pathetic Fallacy,” an engineer named Quinn brags (in glorious ’40s tech-speak) to a pair of journalists about the giant computing machine that his organization…
