ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE

The first bug in software was a literal bug—because nature also likes to code badly.

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A moth found in a Harvard Mark II computer in 1947, taped into a log by Grace Hopper's team, is a famous literal bug. But the term bug for technical faults was used earlier, even by Edison.

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