Ada Lovelace if she exist today

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Actually lemme nerd out a bit

hang on lemme find the quote

So Lovelace kinda predicted that Computers will become a lot more than very good calculators

"[The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine...Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent."

So she kinda predicted Gen AI as well as... everything that came before it

Like what was the first thing that a computer was used for that wasn't just math

So like Lovelace's idea from 1842 was proven to be accurate even beyond what she could expect

Like she didn't predict that computers would replace the typewriter because actually there weren't typewriters yet

Photography was in its infancy so the idea of "Just measure brightness in all points of the image and put it into a computer" didn't cross her mind either

She was the first person to see the potential in Babbage's "Loom but Math" idea

So yes, she would be quite fond of Neurosama AI

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Fascinating