YOU LOOK LIKE A THING AND I LOVE YOU

You Look Like a Thing And I Love You is an incredibly accessible, informative, and (this is equally-important) hilarious look at how the AIs deciding things around us operate. They're not magic, and they're not even that mysterious - but in Janelle Shane's hands, they're hysterical.

YOU LOOK LIKE A THING AND I LOVE YOU has been selected as one of the two must-read nonfiction books of the fall by The Next Big Idea Club! The curators of this book club are Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink. "Artificial intelligence researcher Janelle Shane pulls back the curtain on the technology that has become so integral to our Facebook feeds, our Google searches, and life as we know it. Shane has taught AI to tell knock-knock jokes, design the perfect sandwich, and even flirt with humans, making her an ideal, witty guide through the inner workings of AI." Read more...

This book is scary, not because of how smart AI is, but how weird and too often dysfunctional. If Janelle Shane is a real person, and not some kind of writing robot, she demonstrates the superiority of natural intelligence in the task of making a technical topic irresistibly funny and compelling.

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YOU LOOK LIKE A THING AND I LOVE YOU is smart, fun, important, accessible and idiosyncratic the kind of science we all wish we'd had access to in school. I love that Janelle's proposal takes the received orthodoxy about AI and turns it on its head. Yes, AI is terrifying and is reshaping our world in manifold ways - but it's also entirely absurd and deeply flawed and therefore, in its own way, more human than we sometimes make out.

Janelle Shane introduces you to a world that's more unpredictable - and definitely wackier - than you likely imagined.

Curators Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink have in fact just hand-picked the six most exciting nonfiction reads of the fall season for the Next Big Idea Club (8,000+ members), and selected YOU LOOK LIKE A THING AND I LOVE YOU as one of the six finalists! Read more...

If you're worried about what AI is doing to the world, this book may not exactly reassure you, but it will definitely equip you with greater understanding in a highly readable manner. Shane's sense of humor and enthusiasm for her topic shine through. Recommended for anyone who wants to better understand the strengths and limitations of artificial intelligence, but also for anyone who likes watching computers fail hilariously.

[I]t's highly, highly readable and very funny...

If you're terrified that artificial intelligence is going to take over the world soon, you clearly haven't asked a computer to write pickup lines, name pets, or do anything else social or creative. Janelle Shane has, and she's the perfect tour guide to explain what machine learning can and can't doand how it's already affecting your life. I can't think of a better way to learn about artificial intelligence, and I've never had so much fun along the way.

Machine learning algorithms are becoming more entrenched in our everyday lives, but they're far from perfect. Janelle Shane takes readers on a light-hearted adventure into the world of machine learning in the wild, examining what these algorithms are really learning - and what they're misunderstanding completely. If you're interested in learning about machine learning and artificial intelligence, trying to understand our robot overlords, or just love weird and interesting science, you can't miss this book.

Janelle Shane has hit the trifecta - the most hilarious, educational, and overall best explainer of artificial intelligence ever written (and drawn).

Janelle Shane is quickly becoming the internet's neural network queen.

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Janelle Shane's goofy experiments with AI reveal a lot about the future. This book will make you laugh, but you'll also get a crash course in how AI works - and why it's not quite ready to take over the world. A delightful way to learn about the technology that's poised to change our lives.

Few recent innovations are so revolutionary as machine learning - and none are so poorly understood by the public, pundits, and policy makers. In You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, Janelle Shane delivers a fun, common-sense guide to the technology that's shaping our future.

While everyone else is making questionable predictions about the future of AI, Janelle Shane cuts through the fog by telling you how AI actually works. And, even better: she makes it fun!

Curators Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink have in fact just hand-picked the six most exciting nonfiction reads of the fall season for the Next Big Idea Club (8,000+ members), and selected YOU LOOK LIKE A THING AND I LOVE YOU as one of the six finalists! Read more...

Janelle Shane makes the kind of neural networks that go viral. Her quirky creations autonomously stumble and grumble... the output of her networks is typically silly and charming in equal measure.