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Ada Lovelace's Objection

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Ada Lovelace said the computer “is not designed to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.” She left a passage stating this. The sentence later became famous when Alan Turing discussed it as “Lady Lovelace's objection” to the proposition that computers think. In response, Turing offered a variation of Lovelace's words, that computers “cannot surprise people” (their makers), and immediately refuted it. According to Turing, “Machines in fact surprise me very frequently.” https://scrapbox.io/files/66312b8d4e1e400024a74f72.png The world’s first programmer #machinelearning

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