They said machines could never be truly creative.

But one woman in the 1800s built a test to prove it.

Now, in 2025, the world’s top labs may have passed the famous Lovelace Test.

Here’s how ONE test could redefine intelligence—and why it matters to you: 🧵
Born in 1815, Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron.

But she took after her mother, who pushed her toward mathematics instead of poetry.

This unique blend of artistic and analytical thinking led her to a groundbreaking insight:

MIT’s most disturbing breakthrough had nothing to do with weapons.

In 1966, they created a computer that extracted confessions better than FBI interrogators.

They watched in horror as people trusted it completely.

This experiment became the blueprint for today’s AI: 🧵 Meet ELIZA, the world's first chatbot.

Created at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum between 1964 and 1966, she was one of the first natural language processing programs.

Her purpose? To demonstrate the limitations of human-computer interaction.

But something unexpected was about to happen...

Harvard scientists built one of the most advanced computers in the world.

Then, in 1947, it suddenly stopped working.

When engineers opened the machine, they found something no one expected—an actual moth.

Here's the crazy story most developers have never heard: 🧵
In the 1940s, programming looked nothing like today.

Code was written on paper, then translated into binary by hand.

Computers were the size of rooms, packed with relays and vacuum tubes...

When something broke, how did anyone even find the issue?

In 1945, six women pulled off a computing miracle.

They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training.

Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades.

The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: 🧵 Kathy Kleiman, a young programmer, found old photos of women standing beside ENIAC—the first general-purpose computer.

When she asked who they were, curators said: “Probably just models”...

But Kleiman had a feeling they were something more:

They said machines could never be truly creative.

But one woman in the 1800s built a test to prove it.

Now, in 2025, the world’s top labs may have passed the famous Lovelace Test.

Here’s how ONE test could redefine intelligence—and why it matters to you: 🧵
Born in 1815, Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron.

But she took after her mother, who pushed her toward mathematics instead of poetry.

This unique blend of artistic and analytical thinking led her to a groundbreaking insight:

MIT’s most disturbing breakthrough had nothing to do with weapons.

In 1966, they created a computer that extracted confessions better than FBI interrogators.

They watched in horror as people trusted it completely.

This experiment became the blueprint for today’s AI: 🧵 Meet ELIZA, the world's first chatbot.

Created at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum between 1964 and 1966, she was one of the first natural language processing programs.

Her purpose? To demonstrate the limitations of human-computer interaction.

But something unexpected was about to happen...

In 1939, one man solved a problem no one else could.

It helped end the deadliest war in history and quietly shaped the future of technology.

But then the very system he protected punished him for who he was.

Here’s the story of Alan Turing—the genius behind your iPhone: 🧵 Born in London in 1912, Alan Turing was different.

At Sherborne School, his teachers emphasized classics—ancient languages and literature.

But young Alan was drawn to something else entirely.

That's where his genius began to emerge:

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it's complicated

I'll send $1 of bitcoin to the first 25 people ($25 total) who can get lightning set up. reply here, you send $1 I'll send $2 back. for real. will post receipts. only for lightning on your phone, go to your profile, hit "Edit Profile" then turn tips on

you can set usernames for venmo, cash app. strike for lightning and a bitcoin address.