Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vmst.io/@ajaykaul10" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ajaykaul10</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@RIDDLES" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RIDDLES</span></a></span> Turing was the original proponent, as you say, but decades before Turing there was the original detractor of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lovelace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lovelace</span></a>. And Turing seemed to be grumpy about it.</p><p>Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, was an amazing progenitor. She needs her own damn movie. I find her fascinating.</p><p>Apparently her mother was worried about her developing her father's excesses, and steered her upbringing to mathematics, away from literature. It paid off.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Love</span><span class="invisible">lace</span></a></p>