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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

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This book is a delightful exploration of the weird side of AI and why it’s results are frequently amusing to humans. On a more serious note, Shane provides a good high-level overview of how common machine learning algorithms work, what problems they are or aren’t good for, and why the data they get trained on is so important. My wife looked at me funny because I burst into giggles a few times while reading. Highly recommended.