Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>an interesting connection:</p><p>it was <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LordByron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LordByron</span></a> who proposed the ghost story writing contest that led to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MaryShelley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaryShelley</span></a> writing "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frankenstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frankenstein</span></a>", and he was the father of another <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womensHistoryMonth</span></a> notable: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdaLovelace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdaLovelace</span></a></p><p>her story is well known, but less well known is that she predicted <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p><p>she rejected it</p><p>her rejection was not without teeth, because the first non-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scienceFiction</span></a> champion of AI, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlanTuring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlanTuring</span></a>, spent an inordinate amount of time refuting her critique</p><p><a href="https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/ada-lovelace-worlds-first-computer-programmer-who-predicted-artificial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/</span><span class="invisible">ada-lovelace-worlds-first-computer-programmer-who-predicted-artificial</span></a></p><p>3/x</p>