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AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/13/geoffrey-hinton-trump-ai-techReplying to @lavenie@lemmy.zip
it’s incredible how many godfathers ai has. i’ve lost count
weird i never hear about the godmothers though. wonder why that is?
Replying to @bjc@scribe.disroot.org
Because there aren’t many women in STEM so it’s statistically unlikely?
Replying to @magnue@lemmy.world
Except for individuals like Ada Lovelace, Admiral Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton, Hedy Lamarr, and the many other women who greatly contributed to the field of computer science and engineering.
Replying to @blackbelt352@lemmy.world
Most people have only heard of Ada in your list
Replying to @MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world
Honestly I’d even be surprised if people knew Ada Lovelace. Most people dont even know Charles Babbage who laid out the analytical machine she wrote her programs for.
Unless they’re already on that broadly nerdy Lemmy/Reddit style of fun facts that get shared quite frequently.
Replying to @blackbelt352@lemmy.world
Bullshit. Charles Babbage is in every school textbook.
Replying to @MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world
Maybe its changed since I’ve been in grade/high school over 15 years ago, but I dont really recall anything about Babbage in my history classes or programming electives.
My history classes focused mostly the major ancient civilizations, and US history from the colonial 1600s to the civil rights act and moon landing 1960s. The history of computation and computer science is very lacking here in the US.
Most of my knowledge of the important computer science people comes initially from Numberphile and Computerphile. Almost every one of those names I’ve pulled in my previous came from having to google stuff like influential woman computer scientists.
Besides elsewhere in this thread is someone literally saying none of the names I’ve mentioned were anywhere in their AI research curriculum for university.