For “Lovelace & Babbage” http://amzn.to/1MbRWCu @sydneypadua did remarkable original historical research, summarized in funny footnotes.
Essence of symbolic AI—unchanged into 1980s—is that thinking is *general symbolic logic* (not just Boolean algebra) and can be mechanized.
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I didn't realize this concept of "thinking machines" predated the 20th century. A cursory check suggests that no one had it before Lovelace.
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Ada Lovelace's primary teacher was De Morgan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_De_Morgan …, the preeminent logician of their time.
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@Meaningness No way; maybe thoughts, when directed, and then written and organized, are like this, but thinking itself is at least chaotic -
@harmonylion1 Yeah, that conception of AI mostly collapsed in the 1980s. I helped push it over. - 3 more replies
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