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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@Meaningness What about (eg) La Mettrie? https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/la-mettrie/1748/man-machine.htm … Or you mean people who actually had a design?1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
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@mtraven Symbolic math was cutting edge and highly controversial in Lovelace's time.@sydneypadua's book talks about this.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mtraven she was into complex numbers and good friends with Hamilton, who did quaternions. Beginning of abstract algebra.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@mtraven And explicitly proposed computer music composition. (Think I'd read that before but didn't realize significance)
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