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  "path": "/notes/charles-babbage-on-ai/",
  "publishedAt": "2025-07-02T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "On two occasions I have been asked, — \"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.– Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, 1864 Saw this on Simon Willison's blog. Seems extremely relevant in the world of AI!",
  "title": "Charles Babbage on AI"
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