The pioneer Ada Lovelace

Two centuries before Sam Altman unveiled ChatGPT to great fanfare, a woman wrote the first algorithm in history. Not only that, but she imagined that the machines she was talking about could one day compose music, create art or even generate their own ideas, something that became a reality much later. That woman’s name is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, and, for many, she is the invisible mother of artificial intelligence. Invisible not for nothing, but because for more than a hundred years she was ignored, even though her thinking sowed the philosophical seeds of today’s digital revolution.