For “Lovelace & Babbage” http://amzn.to/1MbRWCu @sydneypadua did remarkable original historical research, summarized in funny footnotes.
Philosophical materialism, much more than practical applications, was also the emotional driving force for AI in the 20th century.
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There's tantalizing (tho thin) evidence in http://amzn.to/1MbRWCu that Lovelace developed theoretical AI much further, but didn’t publish it
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In the 1980s, we genuinely believed our 1MHz, 1MB computers were almost powerful enough for human-level AI. Similarly in 1840s, it seems.
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