I've been thinking about this quote a lot. In the context of #genai but also just in the general context of modern society. The last line is how I feel about sooo many things.
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." — Charles Babbage
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