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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@Meaningness No way; maybe thoughts, when directed, and then written and organized, are like this, but thinking itself is at least chaotic1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@harmonylion1 Yeah, that conception of AI mostly collapsed in the 1980s. I helped push it over.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
@harmonylion1 Autobiographical account at http://meaningness.com/metablog/ken-wilber-boomeritis-artificial-intelligence … . Tries to be entertaining.
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