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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

i find all of this extraordinary:

#MaryShelley created "#Frankenstein"

the seminal work (arguably the first work of #scienceFiction)-

humanity creating artificial life

in a ghost story writing contest suggested by #LordByron

the father of #AdaLovelace

who predicted #AI (the first person to seriously address the topic)-

humanity creating an artificial mind

something to think about this #womensHistoryMonth:

the artistic and technological mothers of our age

bbc.com/news/magazine-24565995

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BBC NewsA Point of View: Will machines ever be able to think?The pursuit of "machine intelligence" has long interested computer scientists, but will machines ever think for themselves, ask Lisa Jardine.
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

an interesting connection:

it was #LordByron who proposed the ghost story writing contest that led to #MaryShelley writing "#Frankenstein", and he was the father of another #womensHistoryMonth notable: #AdaLovelace

her story is well known, but less well known is that she predicted #AI

she rejected it

her rejection was not without teeth, because the first non-#scienceFiction champion of AI, #AlanTuring, spent an inordinate amount of time refuting her critique

nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/

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NIST · Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer Who Predicted Artificial IntelligenceDuring Women’s History Month, I am remembering Ada Lovelace’s contributions and thinking about the impact she had on me as a scientist and mathematician
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

@kityates

not only was #lovelace the world's first #programmer, she was also the first #AI detractor

and i know that because the first non-#sciencefiction proponent of AI, #alanturing, cited her in his defense of/ argument for AI

#turing framed the foundational thoughts of the entire field of AI, as an argument against ada's thoughts

and she lived many decades before turing!

#adalovelace was an amazing woman

she deserves her own hollywood movie

bbc.com/news/magazine-24565995

BBC NewsA Point of View: Will machines ever be able to think?The pursuit of "machine intelligence" has long interested computer scientists, but will machines ever think for themselves, ask Lisa Jardine.
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Today we remember #AdaLovelace Day, famed for her work on #CharlesBabbage's proposed mechanical computer, the #AnalyticalEngine.
In 1843, Lovelace published what would now be recognized as a #computerprogram to generate Bernoulli numbers and was the first to see the creative potential of Babbage's machine.
As for the day honoring Lovelace, its goal is to increase the profile of women in STEM and encourage more girls into #STEM careers.
theregister.com/2024/10/08/ada

Painting of Ada Lovelace
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

Ada was extraordinary, the people around her clearly thought so.

So much so they put time to correspond with her, to talk her up to others.

Like do you really imagine Charles Babbage claiming she did his work?

Or the other men in that space?

Dude that's your sexism talking.

We all build off, and are inspired by each other.

But if you're used to seeing our spaces as a competition to prove who's technically the best, I suggest you open up your viewpoint beyond code.

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