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Funny and interesting introduction to what AI is, what people think it is and can do, and what actually it can and cannot do.
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Informative and cute illustrations!
Funny and educational. Adorable illustrations sprinkled throughout. Piles of sources an footnotes.
Basically everything I want from a non-fiction title.
Basically everything I want from a non-fiction title.
This is a great book to learn about the basics of AI for those of us who aren’t engineers. She does it in a humorous way that kept me engaged and wanting to learn more. Never thought the topic of AI could be laugh out loud funny.
I loved thus book. I learned so much about machine learning, and laughed a lot while doing so. Highly recommended.
Great, fun and informative look at artificial intelligence. Makes me wonder if this review is going to be used in a training dataset.
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This book is both funny and frustrating.
Toward the beginning I almost gave up on understanding the process Shane describes regarding machine learning. She does a good job of simplifying it for the uninformed and yet, I still struggled to understand the idiosyncrasies of the process computers go through to create processing "neurons" for decision making.
However, once to book moves into adversarial algorithms to learn, it became easier to understand. I love the examples of how machines are essentially looking for the easiest solutions even when it means hacking their own simulation. The hoverdog made me laugh out loud. The tipping towers might also be a nice way to get from here to there.
It often felt like teaching machines is like teaching children: "Oh, but you didn't say I couldn't solve it that way." And, "What do you mean this isn't the problem you wanted solved? You need to ask better questions." Since machines have no schema, no context, they often do unexpected things, just like kids. As an educator, this really emphasizes the importance of building schema when teaching kids.
I'm a bit relieved to learn that AI is likely not as advanced as corporations and nations would like us to think, and AGI is very far away.
Toward the beginning I almost gave up on understanding the process Shane describes regarding machine learning. She does a good job of simplifying it for the uninformed and yet, I still struggled to understand the idiosyncrasies of the process computers go through to create processing "neurons" for decision making.
However, once to book moves into adversarial algorithms to learn, it became easier to understand. I love the examples of how machines are essentially looking for the easiest solutions even when it means hacking their own simulation. The hoverdog made me laugh out loud. The tipping towers might also be a nice way to get from here to there.
It often felt like teaching machines is like teaching children: "Oh, but you didn't say I couldn't solve it that way." And, "What do you mean this isn't the problem you wanted solved? You need to ask better questions." Since machines have no schema, no context, they often do unexpected things, just like kids. As an educator, this really emphasizes the importance of building schema when teaching kids.
I'm a bit relieved to learn that AI is likely not as advanced as corporations and nations would like us to think, and AGI is very far away.