Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>i find all of this extraordinary:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MaryShelley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaryShelley</span></a> created "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frankenstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frankenstein</span></a>"</p><p>the seminal work (arguably the first work of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scienceFiction</span></a>)-</p><p>humanity creating artificial life</p><p>in a ghost story writing contest suggested by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LordByron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LordByron</span></a></p><p>the father of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdaLovelace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdaLovelace</span></a> </p><p>who predicted <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> (the first person to seriously address the topic)-</p><p>humanity creating an artificial mind</p><p>something to think about this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womensHistoryMonth</span></a>:</p><p>the artistic and technological mothers of our age</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24565995" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">bbc.com/news/magazine-24565995</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>6/6</p>