A review by cfinnigan
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane

5.0

Not only is the title a perfect encapsulation of my sexual orientation the book is an absolute delight. So many claims are being made for AIs but what can they actual do? What kinds of problems can they solve what can’t they solve. The book is hilarious and accessible dive into the various pitfalls of AI learning. AIs will cheat, fall over, forget what they are doing and basically act very very strange. You’ll learn why AI image recognition insists giraffes exist where none are visible. And how different AIs trained on the same database understand each other in uncanny ways.

AIs can also replicate the worst of humanity and we need to be very cautious in how we use them. This is great resource to develop skepticism for those AI claims that are just too good to be true.