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Lovelace, A. A. (1843). Notes by the translator. In A. Hyman (Ed), Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage. (pp. 267–311). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
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Categories: AI/Machine Learning
Keywords: Artificial creativity, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
Creators: Hyman, Lovelace
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge)
Collection: Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage
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   p. 3  
Predicts AI's ability to process symbols with music example

"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."

  Added by: alexb44  (11/09/2026, 03:48)

Keywords:   Artificial creativity, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
   p. 4  
Mathematical science is the only way to truly understand the natural world

"Those who view mathematical science, not merely as a vast body of abstract and immutable truths, whose intrinsic beauty, symmetry and logical completeness, when regarded in their connexion together as a whole, entitle them to a prominent place in the interest of all profound and logical minds, but as possessing a yet deeper interest for the human race, when it is remembered that this science constitutes the language through which alone we can adequately express the great facts of the natural world, and those unceasing changes of mutual relationship which, visibly or invisibly, consciously or unconsciously to our immediate physical perceptions, are interminably going on in the agencies of the creation we live amidst [...]"

  Added by: alexb44  (11/09/2026, 04:01)

Keywords:   Artificial creativity, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
   p. 5  
Two points here: The human is not intervening "during calculations", and "its nature is limited".

"in the absence of all necessity for the intervention of human intelligence during the performance of its calculations. Its nature is, however, limited to the strictly arithmetical, and it is far from being the first or only scheme for constructing arithmetical calculating machines with more or less of success."

In this instance I would argue that the human can never not be present, because arithmetic is an entirely anthropocentric concept and includes biases of its own. 

  Added by: alexb44  (11/09/2026, 04:43)

Keywords:   Artificial creativity, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
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