Ada Lovelace on AI
2 quotes from Ada Lovelace on the wall, 1843, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, Scientific Memoirs, vol. 3.
Ada Lovelace, Countess of Lovelace, wrote this in Note A of her notes on her translation of Menabrea's paper on Babbage's engine, August 1843.
Taylor's Scientific MemoirsSketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes by the Translator (Note A)
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing
Ada Lovelace in Note G of her 1843 translation of Menabrea's paper on Babbage's Analytical Engine, spelled as printed then. Turing answered her in 1950 as "Lady Lovelace's Objection".
Scientific Memoirs, vol. 3Sketch of the Analytical Engine, Notes by the Translator, Note G
Mentioned in other quotes 3
Quotes by others that refer to Ada Lovelace
- 1950
Alan Turing in the first sentence of his paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", Mind, October 1950. He replaced the question with the imitation game and also answered Ada Lovelace's 1843 note as "Lady Lovelace's Objection".
- 1842
The machine is not a thinking being
Menabrea, a Piedmontese military engineer, wrote this account of Babbage's Analytical Engine in French in 1842 after Babbage presented it in Turin. English from Ada Lovelace’s 1843 translation. Translated from French.
Bibliothèque universelle de GenèveNotions sur la machine analytique de M. Charles Babbage
Menabrea, a Piedmontese military engineer, described the uses of Babbage's Analytical Engine in this 1842 French memoir in the Bibliothèque universelle de Genève. English from Ada Lovelace’s 1843 translation. Translated from French.
Bibliothèque universelle de GenèveNotions sur la machine analytique de M. Charles Babbage