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I read You Look Like a Thing and I Love You as part of my subscription to the Next Big Idea Club, which is curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink. I thought it was an interesting little book that told me a lot of quirky stories about AI, and gave me a bit more vocabulary with which to discuss AI. I didn’t necessarily learn anything life-changing, but I did find myself entertained.
Janelle Shane runs a blog called AI Weirdness, where she draws cute and funny cartoons and reports on the weird and also funny results of AI experiments. This book is really an extension of that blog, or maybe a more organized precursor. She goes through systematically to explain what AI is (and what it isn’t) and what it can do (and what it cannot, and why). She gives fun examples to illustrate. For example, “you look like a thing and I love you” was an AI algorithm’s attempt to write a pick-up line.
Admittedly, I listened to this one’s audiobook, so I missed out on a lot of the cute cartoons that pepper the book’s pages as well. But while I think they would have added smiles, I don’t know that they would have added much substance.
If you know absolutely nothing about AI (which, you might surprise yourself actually), then this book could be really eye-opening for you. But if you’re even a bit familiar, I thought this book felt more like novelty knowledge. Still, that can be fun, too (and it was)!
I read You Look Like a Thing and I Love You as part of my subscription to the Next Big Idea Club, which is curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink. I thought it was an interesting little book that told me a lot of quirky stories about AI, and gave me a bit more vocabulary with which to discuss AI. I didn’t necessarily learn anything life-changing, but I did find myself entertained.
Janelle Shane runs a blog called AI Weirdness, where she draws cute and funny cartoons and reports on the weird and also funny results of AI experiments. This book is really an extension of that blog, or maybe a more organized precursor. She goes through systematically to explain what AI is (and what it isn’t) and what it can do (and what it cannot, and why). She gives fun examples to illustrate. For example, “you look like a thing and I love you” was an AI algorithm’s attempt to write a pick-up line.
Admittedly, I listened to this one’s audiobook, so I missed out on a lot of the cute cartoons that pepper the book’s pages as well. But while I think they would have added smiles, I don’t know that they would have added much substance.
If you know absolutely nothing about AI (which, you might surprise yourself actually), then this book could be really eye-opening for you. But if you’re even a bit familiar, I thought this book felt more like novelty knowledge. Still, that can be fun, too (and it was)!