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- 1Kate Beaton's Charles Babbage comic recirculates amid AI debate●"I can't abide sloppy math!" - Charles Babbage (father of the computer) to Georgiana. From " Hark! A Vagrant " webcomics
A 2014 'Hark! A Vagrant' webcomic by Kate Beaton, showing computer pioneer Charles Babbage telling Georgiana 'I can't abide sloppy math!', is being shared again online. Readers are invoking the Victorian mathematician's famed impatience with calculation errors to comment on today's AI tools, which are often criticised for producing confident but wrong answers.