How We Learned to Talk to Machines
A terminal prompt said "we" and I couldn't stop thinking about it
The other day I was running a command on my Macbook Pro. I use Linux for my daily work, so I don’t spend much time in the Mac terminal. But this caught my attention:
Ready to start. To continue, we need to erase…
We.
Who, precisely, is we?
The entities involved were myself and my computer. Yet the machine framed our relationship in collaborative terms - a …
