Is ENIAC An Idiot?

ENIAC
(Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
1946, because of the pre and post economic failures surrounding ‘The War To End All Wars’ the conditions were created for World War Two and the development of the first programable electronic general purpose digital computer. Initially designed to do calculations for ballistic ordinance trajectories ship to ship, ship to land, land to ship.

To begin with, without being allowed in the room where the eight foot tall 18,000 vacuum tubed machine resided, the female NACA
(National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) mathematicians had to ‘program’ ENIAC sight unseen. NACA had been created to coordinate the scientific research of flight. Known as “Computers” the female NACA mathematicians operators were tasked with calculating the trajectories of military ordnance in the World War Two war effort,
as depicted in the book
PROVING GROUND: The untold story of the six women who programmed the world’s first computer Kathy Klienman
For instance, ENIAC offered a faster method of calculating  large complex mathematical problems, which were eventually instrumental in the creation of The Hydrogen Bomb, because of the enormous temperature threshold level of required ignition.

Likewise, in 1957 GIGO: Garbage In Garbage Out the quality of the output is proportional to the quality of the input!
Garbage: biased, flawed, inferior information input produces a poor quality output entered the lexicon.

Moreover, in 1961 in Eisenhower’s Farewell address he states we must preserve broad-based shared prosperity for all future generations, avoid over reliance on computers and the military industrial complex, plus maintain intellectual curiosity.

Similarly, 1968 Stanley Kubrick’s
science fiction movie ‘2001 A Space Odyssey’
When a mysterious artifact is uncovered
on the moon, a space craft manned by two humans
and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter
to find its’ origins.

The fictional HAL 9000 computer
is an Artificial Intelligence character
that is the main antagonist
in Arthur C. Clarke’s A Space Odyssey
Heuristically programmed Algorithmic computer
that controls the systems of the entire space craft.

Dave: “Open the pod bay doors please HAL”…

Hal: “Dave I am afraid I can’t do that…
this mission is too important.”

In like manner,

“To err is human;
too really foul things up requires a computer”

Population Biologist Paul Ehrlich 1969

Furthermore,

An algorithm is an opinion wrapped in mathematics
Weapons of MATH Destruction
How big data increases inequality
and threatens Democracy 2017
Cathey O’Neil

Finally, 2018 Sri Lanka blocks access to social media to help stem mob violence is referred to in

THE CHAOS MACHINE:
The inside story how social media
rewired our brains and our world 2023
Max Fisher

In conclusion, now with generative AI hallucinations does ENIAC enhance community or chaos?

Is ENIAC an idiot?