A review by holly_keimig
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

I really liked this book. I got it to give to my ridiculously smart nephew as a gift (he is very hard to buy books for but I really love sharing that with him when I find great ones) and decided to read it first to make sure it was all ok content-wise since he's only now a teenager. I knew very little about AI and machine learning when I started the book. Pretty much my only exposure was friends playing with ChatGPT and the doomsday headlines about AI taking everyone's jobs soon. This book made me feel both better and worse about AI. It was reassuring and cautious, informative and funny. It's a great example of accessible non-fiction writing that anyone can take something away from. I highly recommend checking this book out. You will learn something and probably feel a bit better about the future. Also, there are lots of giraffes and very cute illustrations. I listened to the book on audio, which was very good, but you will want to have the book (or PDF from library) so you can look at the illustrations!