Deep Learning with the Analytical Engine

A month after Ada Lovelace s 200th birthday, Adam P. Goucher explores the potential of the Analytical Engine to anticipate truths of its own. Abstract: The question of whether a mechanical automaton could reason as we do has been posited for as long as such machines have existed. Real progress in realising machine intelligence, however, has eluded us until very recently with the advent of deep learning. But why has it taken so long Does intelligence inherently require vast swathes of memory and lightning