For “Lovelace & Babbage” http://amzn.to/1MbRWCu @sydneypadua did remarkable original historical research, summarized in funny footnotes.
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Lovelace seems to have invented symbolic artificial intelligence (from http://amzn.to/1MbRWCu by
@sydneypadua):pic.twitter.com/5JPL160trm
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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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There's a school of Ada-ology that says she was a doofus and Babbage did all the work.
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“Uniting link between operations of matter and abstract mental processes” suggests Ada's known mind/body materialist & atheist agenda.
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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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