One great thing about getting older, is that stupid and unlikely things seem to keep coming true!
For example:
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
...and I think with AI, we've reached a similar level of confusion.
Modern Computing’s Roots or The Manchester Baby - In the heart of Manchester, UK, a groundbreaking event took place in 1948: the fir... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/19/modern-computings-roots-or-the-manchester-baby/ #manchesterbaby #computerhacks #manchester #vonneumann #history #babbage #eniac
*I'll probably die before amybody figures this out, but that's nowhere near so painful as trying and failing to do it #AnalyticalEngine #steampunk #Babbage #Turin #AdaLovelace
https://medium.com/@bruces/the-mysterious-visit-of-mr-babbage-by-bruce-sterling-2017-7c941028c4d8
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What is #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence? #AGI
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...chess and go players. And as we’ve discussed before on #Babbage, they’re tackling some of the biggest challenges in science, like predicting the three dimensional structures of proteins. One of the company’s goals from the outset, though, has been to build a system that would achieve AGI. And recently they’ve been 
trying to formalise what that actually means.
The...
Browsing the newly published details of Charles Darwin's library more. Impressed to see novels in there - that's relatively unusual for a private library of this era. Many Dickens, many Gaskell. He also had works by Babbage, Mary Somerville and my g..uncle-in-law Charles Maclaren. http://darwin-online.org.uk/Complete_Library_of_Charles_Darwin.html #HistoryOfScience #BookHistory #Books #Bookstodon #Libraries #Reading #Darwin #CharlesDarwin #Science #Novels #Babbage #Dickens #CharlesBabbage #CharlesDickens #ElizabethGaskell #Gaskell
Did You Know...
Charles #Babbage, the inventor of the first #computer, was an #occultist who tried to summon #Satan with his own blood, among other things.
Who knew??
