Zuse Z3 - Germany's SUPERCOMPUTER which was NOT USED for Code Breaking ('41 - '45)

[@ozelhassan8576]

So zuse was the first person to create a programmable computer by about a year or two, Genius

[@杵渕亮子]

Ofcourse, but Charles Babbage did it near by 100 years erlier in analogy mechanic kind !!!

[@josega6338]

​@@杵渕亮子The Babbage 'difference machine' exhausted his money, but was not completed until 20th century, long after Babbage died

[@CCoburn3]

This computer had little in common with the Bombe. The Bombe was a single-use piece of hardware that could not be programmed. It has more in common with the machines developed to calculate trajectories in WWII. But then, you couldn't have brought in Turing if you hadn't talked about the Bombe.

[@DavidDouglas-q7v]

I had no idea all this was going on during the war; thanks again for picking such interesting subjects!

[@helmutzollner5496]

Thank you for this nice portrait of Kontad Zuse and his work. Zuse was indeed a computing pioneer. IBM recognises that and approached in the early 1950 to to work in tge early predecessors if the 360. That would havecrequired him to relocate to the USA. He declined. Apparently, he also worked as a consultant for Heinz Nixdorf, when he built the predecessor of the Nixdorf Compter AG. Plan Kalkül was indeed a very interesting language, which allegedly already contained object orientated concepts. Shame it stayed unpublished for so long.

[@davidschroeder3272]

This is pretty astonishing, I never heard of this. It's interesting how technological advancements were happening, more or less in parallel, in multiple nations, despite their isolation due to war.

[@mineown1861]

The bombe was based on the bomba kryptologiczna ,designed by polish cryptologist Marian Rejewski , who had used it to break enigma code prior to the outbreak of war . The machine shown at 1:14 was the more advanced colossus, designed by Tommy Flowers , a telephony research engineer .

[@grandaddyoe1434]

Actually building cutting-edge technology was no mean feat and Tommy F rarely receives the acknowledgement he deserves, nor does his team.

[@LuciFeric137]

What the UK did to Turing was ghastly

[@TauvicRitter]

Not only to him.

[@oxcart4172]

Bloody religion. It spoils everything

[@guessundheit6494]

The l~meys were always self-serving hypocrites, using and throwing away people.

[@杵渕亮子]

Turing has been using the mathematical theory created by polish mathematician ! He use also the polish made elctro magnetic computer "Bomba"... Nothing else !!!

[@indigohammer5732]

I'm sure the boys he propositioned in public lavatories thought his suggestions ghastly

[@grandaddyoe1434]

Not forgetting Charles Babbage, who designed a "differential machine" centuries before, but which technology of the day could not build . . .

[@captainoffuture4488]

As a child i saw a Z3 computer in the German Museum in Munich.

[@guntherbehr4044]

@@captainoffuture4488 go to Friedrich Alexander Universität, Erlangen has a running Zuse Z3

[@brunosouza2918]

》This is actually the first time I've watched such a detailed explanation about these computers that were built in (pre war) Germany intead of UK Colossus and US ENIAC, congratulations! (⚙️⚙️)

[@1rjona]

America’s computer genius was Admiral Grace Hopper who used the Harvard Mark 1 to calculate trajectories of battleship guns. She also creates COBOL which is still used in banks and credit card companies today

[@johnlacey155]

No, she didn't create COBOL. How was she any more of a genius than any of the many other key designers that preceded her work in the USA? I'm not trying to disparage GH, just that some balanced perspective might be a good thing.

[@1rjona]

@@johnlacey155 like how is Turing better anyone else in Bletchely Park? Because he led the women who did the grunt work of breaking those codes daily. COBOL was designed in 1959 by CODASYL and was partly based on the programming language FLOW-MATIC, designed by Grace Hopper. Just saying , both Turing and Hopper contributed to war effort using their computer skills. And their other contributions are still being used today

[@johnlacey155]

@@1rjona The COBOL language was brought into existence mainly as a movement towards standardisation (via the CODASYL group) for a common business programming language. It was not the first or best business programming language of that era - it was just another language. I don't think you realise how much of a stretch you are taking by comparing GH to Turing? Yes both Turing and Hopper contributed to war effort, but not on anything like the same level, and there were many others. Like I said, I'm not trying to say anything negative about GH.

[@desmonddwyer]

No mention of the polish guy who broke the code and came up with the bomb🤔

[@abbush2921]

What guy was that names please .

[@khent712]

@@abbush2921 Marian Adam Rejewski built the "Bomba", and Turing built an improved version.

[@jacksons1010]

⁠@@khent712Turing’s _Bombe_ used a different cryptographic strategy than Rejewski’s _Bomba_ . Rejewski was immensely helpful to the efforts at Bletchley Park, but then again much of the Pole’s success was based on information about Enigma provided by the French. No one person deserves credit for breaking Enigma.

[@ZuulGatekeeper]

Broke the very first Enigma code back when it was used for civilian application's like banking. The military Enigma's were totally different & far more complex & the crack used by Poland did not work on those. Turing & Co had to find new ways to crack the codes & keep on cracking them as the Nazi's constantly upgraded the Enigma's making them more & more complex as the war rolled on.

[@larrystuder6378]

As I recall 3 Polish guys worked on it, and escaped, bringing samples and the method with them.

[@brunosouza2918]

》Although most of the people doen't take it into consideration nowadays, the fact is that huge organizations like German SAP came to challenge their US conterparts like IBM, back in the 60s.

[@Artur10311]

To learn more about the Zs, I recommend the book: The Computer - My Life, Konrad Zuse (Spring- Verlag)

[@reneejones6330]

Command-staff messages were not encrypted by enigma, but used the "tunny" teleprinter code.

[@ZuulGatekeeper]

Yes this was far more important than Enigma, The Lorenz 'Tunny' was a state-of-the-art 12-wheel cipher machine far more complex compared with Enigma's 3 wheel cipher. Mathematician William Tutte efforts in doing what was considered impossible deciphering the code does not get enough credit, it wasn't Enigma that shortened the war it was Lorenz (Tunny) that carried orders from Hitler & Nazi high command to the generals in the field & thanks to Tutte also right into the hands of Churchill & Eisenhower.

[@christiankastorf4836]

As in later years as well there were two ways of sending signals: morse code and teletype/radio teletype. Both systems used codes that were not secret at all, so they had to be coded if confidential messages were to be transmitted. Teletype is far more mathematical than morse code. The machine uses five small electrical switches that have studs which are pressed against the perforated tape. When there is a hole in the paper the switch goes "on", when there is no hole it stays "off". The mechanics of the machine "reads" those five positions from top to bottom one after the other and turns them into a series of signals or non-signals. When we see a signal (hole) as "plus" and the lack of a signal (no hole) as "minus" (two options) it becomes clear that five postions are enough for the entire alphabet and necessary functions: 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 32 And what about cryptology. You must "add" another letter. + and + make +/ - and - make +/ + and - make -/ - and + make - / That is all. The orginal letter or interspace function between two words becomes someting different. That is what is sent by wire or by radio teletype. The receiving machine has the same letter code as the sending machine and takes the "wrong" information off the letters so that the real message is printed on the paper. Computers use the same mathematics and that means that such a machine that it quick enough to try all possible codes can break such a code. But you must know how many letters that code contains and if the code is used over and over again.

[@EleanorMcHugh]

@@ZuulGatekeeperto mention TUNNY without mentioning Tommy Flowers is criminal. Flowers devised the first fully electronic programmable computer Colossus Mark I to do the job, building on his previous work with telecom relays. Colossus was the hardware which automated TUNNY decrypts. It’s also a fascinating machine due to its use of systolic arrays.

[@petter5721]

Interesting! The Swedish genius Arne Beurling cracked the German G-machine single handed during WW2. Sweden designed a code breaking computer as well. The swedes were submitting German war information to the allies during the war.

[@Slartyfartblarst]

No mention of the crucial Polish involvement. Also, the Nazi high command used Lorenz cipher machines, which were far more complex and harder to crack than Enigma.

[@Cornel1001]

LM never been cracked !

[@Slartyfartblarst]

​@@Cornel1001 You are misinformed. Lorenz / Tunny was cracked by the Allies in WW2. A human error led to the breakthrough that cracked the code. On 30 August 1941, against all the rules, a Lorenz message was re-sent between Berlin and Athens because the first was not received properly. They used the same wheel settings - and crucially the second message was shortened by the use of abbreviations. This gave Colonel John Tiltman the insight he needed to break the code by hand in ten days.

[@Slartyfartblarst]

@@Cornel1001 The first Tunny machines were built following the work in 1942 of mathematician Bill Tutte. Plans were drawn up for it after analysing intercepted encrypted radio signals Hitler was sending to the Nazi high command. These orders were encrypted before being transmitted by a machine known as a Lorenz SZ42 enciphering machine. Prior to the creation of machines to do the code-breaking, the orders were broken by hand in what was known as "The Testery". Bill Tutte's analysis enabled the development of the Tunny machine which effectively reverse-engineered the workings of the SZ42 - even though he had never seen it. The first machine built to capitalise on Tutte's analysis was called Heath Robinson and the more reliable and faster Colossus machines followed soon after. Tunny worked alongside the Colossus computer, which together with input from the Testery, calculated the settings of an SZ42 used to encipher a particular message. These settings were reproduced on Tunny, the enciphered message was fed in, and the decrypted text was printed out. By the end of WWII there were 12-15 Tunny machines in use and the information they revealed about Nazi battle plans helped to ensure the success of D-Day.

[@Cornel1001]

@@Slartyfartblarst 73, I will check ! TY

[@napraznicul]

Brilliant! He was a Genius and a Hero of germany. PS: I understood very well your introduction here ;), bravo!

[@helloweener2007]

Why are the names always pronunced wrong? It is a generell thing in English videos. It is so hard just open the Google Translor, enter "Zuse" and push the button for listening? Just an idea one can do it when researching a topic.

[@TauvicRitter]

It's talking machine

[@YoniBaruch-y3m]

The AI is focused on English and doesn’t recognize German.

[@juhojohansson1716]

@@YoniBaruch-y3m I think it is kind of sad that people creating content won't do simple things like speak their own videos... I mean I get it if for some reason one is unable to do, but I doubt that is quite rare issue.

[@kaibroeking9968]

In 1944, the Z4 was briefly set up in an office at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute for Flow Research, 60 years later, my offive during my master's thesis :)

[@polbecca]

Fascinating video but the narration is so stilted you'd think it was computer generated.

[@vcv6560]

This was a nice feature, may I add.. Find on YT from WGBH Boston 'The Machine that Changed the World', episode 1 Giant Brains (1992). Zuse is among the interviewed. "As a young man you have many things to think about besides calculating, I was lazy so I invented the computer."

[@infographie]

Excellent video.

[@andrewgrillet5835]

"Without a conditional branch" - if it does not have "IF" it is a calculator, not computer. However, it is a very impressive technology - possibly the first use of binary in this way.

[@halvarf]

That's a bit simplified. The Z3 was indeed Turing complete, as is said in the video, which means you had an alternative way to fully program it despite the missing condition branching.

[@quintrankid8045]

From the Wikipedia article, "The Z3 was demonstrated in 1998 to be, in principle, Turing-complete. However, because it lacked conditional branching, the Z3 only meets this definition by speculatively computing all possible outcomes of a calculation. "

[@billpandos7962]

So, what is the role (if any) of IBM in the design and production of this early computer?

[@OrafuDa]

Turing is not recognized as “the father” of AI. He described a test that people could use to discern a computer from a human, when the tester cannot see them. That test and its variants are sometimes used to try to find out if an AI has human-like “thought”. (Although we probably need to understand this area much better.) - And based on his and others’ theoretical work on computers and math, he and mathematician Alonso Church put up a thesis stating that computers would be able to do anything that a human (brain) can do. There are many people who approached AI, but if anyone can claim to be the fathers of modern AI, these would be people like McCulloch and Pitts, McCarthy and Minsky, the participants of the legendary “Dartmouth workshop” in 1956, Papert, Rosenblatt, and others. And later, Hinton and Rumelhart come to mind, but there were many others. I would also mention the authors of the seminal paper “Attention is all you need”: Vaswani, Shazeer, Parmar, Uszkoreit, Jones, Gomez, Kaiser, Polosukhin. Turing was indeed a major contributor to the foundations of computer science.

[@Calvinwiresner]

Zeus kam vom Olymp und versuchte, den gewöhnlichen Sterblichen das Rechnen beizubringen.

[@finlayfraser9952]

Didn't know anything about it, thanks.

[@trojanthedog]

Note the charachter Zuse in Tron as a nod to this great man.

[@lewis7315]

I recently found out that the American military had computers used in codes and code breaking in WW2, but nothing more.

[@beakytwitch7905]

Thank you for this revelatory information. ❤😊

[@timhinchcliffe5372]

He also built a synthesizer for Kraftwerk.

[@anf8985]

That the Dresden bombing was absolutely meaningless from the point of view of military effectiveness wasn't just Zuse's opinion: it's actually shared by anybody who has ever tackled an History book seriously.

[@louismart]

It would be considered a war crime by today’s standards.

[@quintrankid8045]

@@louismart But not at the time.

[@quintrankid8045]

Was it absolutely meaningless? Isn't this the subject of some debate? What evidence supports your assertion?

[@owenlaprath4135]

@@quintrankid8045 Oh, it absolutely had meaning, in that it added to the many war crimes committed by the USA, the primary one being full support of Hitler and the Nazi party before they were even in power, and financing their rise into government and total dictatorship. Germany was a play-house for the capitalist robber barons' plans for USA! It back-fired a wee bit and created WW2, but was wildly successful, and the robber-barons made a ton of money out of WW2 and stealing the businesses of all those millions killed from all parts of society. The old news-reels showing Swastika flag marches in cities all over the USA in the 1930s show the American roots of the Nazi party quite well. Hitler and his goons learned quite a bit about genocide from the well established "Eugenics" movement, that had started in USA in the 19th century. US-American "Eugenics" was the original organized genocide, based on older British pseudo-science not intended for actual implementation. The videos are available right here on KZbin. I would suggest old PBS productions for best accuracy and least opinion spouting.

[@ZuulGatekeeper]

Dresden was certainly tragic but this was all out war nothing that happened in Dresden wasn't also happening elsewhere London, Moscow, Coventry, Warsaw, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Berlin & 100 other city's. Dresden was nothing special but Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels put out propaganda painting Dresden as having no military significance he used it as rallying call for Germans to fight & also hoped the outcry by the media in the UK & US would help dissuade further bombings from the allies a tactic that worked to some degree it was universally condemned. He published a falsified initial casualty figure of 200,000 and gave out death toll estimates went as high as 500,000 we now know the real number was around 25,000 still high but by no means out of line with other city's who also suffered from terrible bombings. Dresden has since been chosen as a cause célèbre by the anti-war campers & neo nazi groups even elevated by them as some special case when its just another in long list of horrors from that war. As for the argument it was of no military importance Dresden was a war city No2 on the Allies hit list it was one of the Nazi's major industrial centers described in an official Nazi guides as "one of the foremost industrial locations of the Reich". Its factories & workshops were a main center for production in their war effort aircraft components, artillery, guns, machinery, vehicles, ammunition, poison gas you name it all came out of Dresden. It's remote easterly location had to that point spared it from major allied bombing raids but it became even more important serving as a major transport hub vital to the war on the eastern front, it was also the Nazi's main command & communication hub for that offensive.

[@jensschroder8214]

IBM punch cards were used to locate Jews in the population. IBM continued to supply new punch cards during the war.

[@r.kellycoker1981]

Your commentary about his reasons for building the computers is unnecessary. He was a patriotic German. So, what?

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

Hitler just used it to play Solitaire.....

[@factnotfiction5915]

no minesweeper?

[@jyvben1520]

@@factnotfiction5915 too violent or not violent enough ? maybe he did not like losing

[@jyvben1520]

while hiding in supreme bunker

[@dbranconnier1977]

And Pong

[@bucc5207]

He was a German scientist, not a Greek god. "Tsu-zuh"

[@RECURSIVE_MATRIX_LOGIC]

"Tsu-zeh" 😉

[@aamiddel8646]

Interesting. But no picture of the rebuilded Z1 in the een museum in Berlijn.

[@MIGHTYcbu]

Then what do they show at 9:15?

[@aamiddel8646]

@@MIGHTYcbu I was referencing the Z1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_%28computer%29 It is mentioned but no pictures. At 9:15 is not the first Zuse computer.

[@maikrohsoft3136]

3:28 This ist Kurt Debus, not Alfred Teichmann.

[@waltertanner7982]

The Enigma was invented by polish engineers and later adopted by the German Army, The polish inventors helped the british forces to crack the Enigma. This was made more dfficult bc the machines used in the war had become more complicate. This part was invented by the german engineers.

[@Artur10311]

The inventor of Enigma was Arthur Scherbius, German.

[@mibnsharpals]

Could she run doom? With an expansion of the memory it could reach 1 image per decade (1fpd).

[@stanstelmach5326]

Dr. Kurt Debus, not Teichmann, at 3:29...

[@oxcart4172]

This narration is no great advert for compiters!

[@j.lietka9406]

What a genius!!

[@owenlaprath4135]

The name is NOT pronounced "Soos"! It is pronounced "Tsoo-seh", not with a soft s, but with a hard "Ts" (a proper Zet), and it ends with an "eh" sound, just as it is spelled. Pronounce it as spelled. Easy. German is very simple that way! Crikey, these are important names in history, and this is only 9 minutes of video. Can't you at least get the bloody names right?

[@jchoward6451]

But you're talking to a damned machine talking out its mechanical ass. Yet another presentation that could have been SO much better if read by a human.

[@gowdsake7103]

Its AI it does not care

[@donfisher8035]

Wow. Who knew. Gates was a fan.

[@daveys]

Reads very similar to Wikipedia…and I mean VERY similar.

[@DrPhilip1951]

The word SUPERCOMPUTER is greatly overdone. The Zuse machine was a step in the development of computers.

[@mibnsharpals]

Yes, you can leave the term like that. The Z3 was the first freely programmable computer that was partially touring (with triks you could make it suitable for touring, but that cost speed). And since it was the only one at the time, it was automatically a "supercomputer". Its architecture corresponded to the future universal computers. It wasn't the bomb, it was actually a replica of the Enigma, only with tubes and could therefore test all combinations more quickly.

[@None-zc5vg]

The Enigma was intended for use by businesses to transmit vital commercial information without anyone outside those businesses being able to access it. The Germans decided to produce their own more-secure version of the machine, which they considered incapable of being accessed by code-breakers.

[@BasementEngineer]

None: Not true! The Germans knew very well that any code could be broken given enough time and resources. Why do you think they had several stages of encryption with increasing difficulty? Eg. 3, 4, rotor and Lorentz. Time is of the essence with military information. 1, 2, 4, weeks later the value of the messages was perhaps of historic value only.

[@quintrankid8045]

@@BasementEngineer I'm less certain of this. I'm pretty sure that Bletchly was using messages to build up dossiers of German officers, so even older messages may have had some value.

[@BasementEngineer]

@@quintrankid8045 You make a reasonable argument. However, for tactical decisions, time is of the essence for military intelligence.

[@abrahamedelstein4806]

7:52 Based!

[@rogeratygc7895]

You show Colossus while speaking of Turing and Enigma. Turing had little to do with Colossus, which was not used to break Enigma, but the code the allies called Tunny. Also you mangle German names horribly! Still an interesting video. I think it was Scientific American who published an article on Konrad Zuse many years ago.

[@josega6338]

F Engels in his book about the condition of british workers in 1845 stated that while britons were watching at their bellies, how smart they were, Germans were going ahead of UK in trading, UK having the delusional aim of being a manufacture land selling to an agricultural Europe, W Churchill, missing a lot of hebrew capital was in German industry, attemted that after WW II. When britons realized the danger in German concurrents, their response was two WW, started through french Clemenceau. The UK ckearly went too far, into crimes, in their rivalry with Germany.

[@Presenoldeb]

Eh?

[@josega6338]

​@@Presenoldeb La verita ti fa male, lo so... Catherina Casselli

[@dont-want-no-wrench]

another example of genius in the service of evil.

[@brunosouza2918]

🫵🏻🇧🇷✌🏻

[@stopmegan]

what could this zus 3 computer do, all i saw was a box full of wires

[@lowersaxon]

Nothing, keep calm, its all British.

[@tomomiko202]

Clearly this is narrated by machine, not a human. "Head of the statics department" indeed.

[@rdbchase]

"The bombe was designed to discover some of the daily settings of the German Enigma cypher machines on the various German military networks. It [sic] was employed extensively by Germany during World War 2 ..." -- false; the Germans had no access to the bombe whatsoever. I'm sick of all the low quality, robo-voiced, garbled content on KZbin!

[@owenlaprath4135]

Chill! "It" refers to Enigma, not the "Bombe". This where proper use and interpretation of punctuation is important. Grammar makes a difference in the meaning of any sentence!

[@rdbchase]

​@@owenlaprath4135 I took the trouble to reproduce what was said accurately but you ignored it -- "it" cannot refer to "German Enigma cypher machines"! We agree about the importance of grammar but I score within the 99.9th percentile in tests of English usage.

[@Calvinwiresner]

@@rdbchase

[@rdbchase]

@@Calvinwiresner I know it's hard, but try English instead.

[@elmocotton3078]

I found a Z4 in a german thrift store in 1979. I sold it for metal scrap for 15 marks. Fun Times..

[@eugeniorodriguezbalboa5414]

Did you buy it? or sell it?

[@JeffEbe-te2xs]

Made by IBM

[@mikkyo3509]

Can you please be a little more educated and change the Nazi Supercomputer in the intro into German supercomputer? You don't know if the inventors, technicians were real Nazis, and it's such a cliché that every German was a Nazi. Besides, the computer wasn't an AI and couldn't have been a Nazi.

[@mdesm2005]

AI voice, pass

[@christiankastorf4836]

Please learn sume basic German pronounciation: It hurts to hear "zuz". We speak of Konrad Zuse, and that sounds like "Tsu-se"

[@BastetFurry]

Das ist nen KI Sprecher, kannst vergessen.

[@sailordude2094]

Luckily, the Germans didn't use it to break the Allied codes!

[@allangibson8494]

The Allies coding machines were based on the holes found in the German and Japanese coding machines… The attacks Bletchley Park exploited simply wouldn’t work on the American and British codes (but worked on the exact Russian clones of the German machines).

[@LilaKuhJunge]

Zuse and his computer (Z1, Z2, Z3) played no role before 1945. Only after the US built a computer, the Germans began to understand what the Z3 was.

[@christopherneufelt8971]

It played a significant role. It was calculating data points for air flow simulation. See V2 (Vergeltungswaffen) for airflow. His machines also contributed to FEM as well to combustion simulation of turbulent flows. The technology of computing was fully understood by the Germans, this is why was considered war decisive (Kriegsentscheident) at the end of the War; this is why there was very few information about these machines. From my experience, Computer Engineer specialized in VHDL computing cores, as I was trying to get information about books on machine calculation (periods of research 1934-1945) I got surprised that there are no books in the German libraries, due to the pillage from the allies between 1945-1949: the books concerned analog machines some of which with relays that were quite common in Germany during the time.

[@LilaKuhJunge]

@@christopherneufelt8971 The usual German right wing trope. Unable to cope with the lost war, you somehow try to find traces of greatness in what Germany did. Zuse was a lone thinker and tinkerer, he built these machines at home, no one took him seriously. Why didn't we see multiple Z3 machines?

[@christopherneufelt8971]

@@LilaKuhJunge Thanks for the irrelevant response. I don't meet frequently people like you. What a reminder! P.S. I have seen the FOIA about the machines of Zuse back in the 80s, and the verfied responses are for one machine, while the unverified reports speak for more machines. We will never know for sure, end of war, conflicting reports, chaos all over the place.

[@litestuffllc7249]

How could Allen Turing be father of "AI" if his efforts were to break codes made by machines already.. by that logic; who ever invented the enigma cipher machine was ahead of Allen, because they had already found a way to code and decode those same messages. Who made the first slide rule; who made the antikitera machine? who made the Pyramids? Who had the first logical thought? Sort of Silly to attribute AI to him.

[@octowuss1888]

Have you never heard of the Turing Test? Most of his contributions to AI took place post war and had nothing to do with his work in code breaking.

[@litestuffllc7249]

@@octowuss1888 Sure the Turning Test was a test to tell if something was intelligent human like- he didn't do anything to implement it. So you can be the father of AI and do nothing to implement it?

[@v12mike30]

In the same way that Einstein was the father of nuclear energy, although he never built a reactor or bomb. He came up with the idea. It was nothing to do with his work at Bletchley, it was work he did at Cambridge before and after the war.

[@reini3006]

Ever heard of the lady who came up with the first idea of algorithms and a kind of "programming language" around 1840 - i.e. long before the first computer was built? If not look up Ada Lovelace (by the way: the Ada programming language was named after her). Neither did Turing actually "invent" AI, nor did Miss Lovelace actually "invent" computer programming, but they laid the foundation upon which later inventors and scientists based their work.

[@litestuffllc7249]

@@v12mike30 Perhaps in that way which isn't exactly knowing how to make an Abomb; or for sure it can be done; but it does say if you can a lot of energy will be released. E=MC2 does suggest that there is a lot of entergy within mass; but it doesn't say you can convert them; a lot of phyicists including Oppenhiemer didn't think the atom could be split. When Germans did it in 1938; some like Silzard thought a chain reaction may be possible; but then he and Einstein wrote a letter and thought with 40 tons of Urainium ore could make a bomb/reactor; it couldn't. You needed to know the Isatope U235 was responsible for low speed nuetron fission and only two people had indetified that. Frisch and Peierls working in the UK found out in 1940; they identified a critcal mass and the yeilds of several bombs but the British kept it a secret until the Manhatten Project. Those scientists didn't need to know E=MC2 to figure it out; they only needed the results of the fission process.

[@anthonyiocca5683]

The player piano was the first computer.

[@Presenoldeb]

That is not correct. Frenchman Joseph Jacquard devised a system of punched cards which automatically programmed the production of any pattern on a weaving loom as early as 1801, which considerably predates Edwin S. Votey's invention of the 'pianola' in 1896. This information is readily available.

[@anthonyiocca5683]

@@Presenoldeb I thank you for your response. You got me thinking… Any wiz-wheel can also be considered as a computer. What makes the player pianos unique is the moving parts. Similarly to but more complex than the wined-up music box. The mechanisms in the player piano actually replace the human player. Also allowing a human to play along. Soooo Defining the first automatic computation device that uses 1’s and zero’s is the wines-up music box.

[@HNemo-gq7yt]

Was hat der z3 mit nazis zu tun? Was soll der Scheiß

[@mearalain3006]

Ueberraschend

[@Justin-TPG]

AI commentaries and content suck

[@SrdjanBasaric-w2s]

How long will you lie that you solved the Enigma machine?

[@donautaler6646]

Nazi, Nazi, Nazi?

[@floycewhite6991]

Der evil nutsies. Funny how those same people never declaim US actions as "Demonrat" or "Republicrap" or British actions as "Antilabour" or "Toadie."

[@TheWolfsnack]

I did Nazi that coming....

[@brunosouza2918]

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