> “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
This was the most memorable quote from his autobiography for me!
GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out - was the first think taught to me in school in Computer Class.
I always used to think why they taught us that - it's common sense! Turns out people have been asking this question since the conception of programmable computers!
And yet, Google tries to show the right links to wrong search requests.
*edit: To me, this seems to be the greatest obstacle towards artificial intelligence. We search AI within computational concepts, where GIGO holds, whereas society already knows what intelligence is. It could be more fruitful to start from there compared to training NNs until they speak.
This was the most memorable quote from his autobiography for me!
GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out - was the first think taught to me in school in Computer Class.
I always used to think why they taught us that - it's common sense! Turns out people have been asking this question since the conception of programmable computers!