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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

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You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

Auteur(s): Janelle Shane
Narrateur(s): Xe Sands
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 As heard on NPR's "Science Friday," discover the book recommended by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink, and Adam Grant: an "accessible, informative, and hilarious" introduction to the weird and wonderful world of artificial intelligence (Ryan North).

"You look like a thing and I love you" is one of the best pickup lines ever . . . according to an artificial intelligence trained by scientist Janelle Shane, creator of the popular blog AI Weirdness. She creates silly AIs that learn how to name paint colors, create the best recipes, and even flirt (badly) with humans—all to understand the technology that governs so much of our daily lives.

We rely on AI every day for recommendations, for translations, and to put cat ears on our selfie videos. We also trust AI with matters of life and death, on the road and in our hospitals. But how smart is AI really... and how does it solve problems, understand humans, and even drive self-driving cars?

Shane delivers the answers to every AI question you've ever asked, and some you definitely haven't. Like, how can a computer design the perfect sandwich? What does robot-generated Harry Potter fan-fiction look like? And is the world's best Halloween costume really "Vampire Hog Bride"?

In this smart, often hilarious introduction to the most interesting science of our time, Shane shows how these programs learn, fail, and adapt—and how they reflect the best and worst of humanity.

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You is the perfect book for anyone curious about what the robots in our lives are thinking.

"I can't think of a better way to learn about artificial intelligence, and I've never had so much fun along the way." —Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals Informatique Technologie Intelligence artificielle Robotique Développement de logiciels Apprentissage automatique Science des données Drôle Spirituel Du contenu qui fait réfléchir Logiciel Programmation

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One of the most anticipated books of the fall! - Adam Grant, Ars Technica, Philadelphia Inquirer, Next Big Idea Club, BookPage
"If you're terrified that artificial intelligence is going to take over the world, you clearly haven't asked a computer to write pick-up lines, name pets, or do anything else social or creative. Janelle Shane has, and she's the perfect tour guide to explain what machine learning can and can't do--and why it's already affecting your life. I can't think of a better way to learn about artificial intelligence, and I've never had so much fun along the way."—Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals
"While everyone else is making questionable predictions about the future of AI, Janelle Shane cuts through the fog by telling you how AI actually works. And even better: she makes it fun!"—Zach Weinersmith, creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and New York Times bestselling author of Soonish
"An incredibly accessible, informative, and hilarious look at how the AIs deciding things around us operate."—Ryan North, New York Times bestselling author of How to Invent Everything
"What better way to explain AI than through examples of what it can and cannot do? Shane is an expert at this and fills the book with hilarious AI experiments as well as a bunch of complementary, charming cartoons. Her writing style is also so approachable that anybody, not just the engineer-minded or the tech-savvy, can understand the often abstract concepts she details."—Ars Technica
"This accessible guide to AI and machine learning cuts through the techno-hype... You Look Like a Thing and I Love You should be essential reading."—Booklist
"AI, AI, AI, that's all you hear... but what is it, really? Why should we care? And why is it driving so much innovation, remaking our world seemingly day by day? Shane is a computer scientist and a great guide."—Philadelphia Inquirer
"An accessible primer... illustrated with charming cartoons, oddball case studies (self-driving cars in Australia were confused by kangaroos), and wry observations about the often-hilarious failures of artificial intelligence to comprehend human contexts."—Publishers Weekly
"If you're worried about what AI is doing to the world, this book may not exactly reassure you, but it will definitely equip you with greater understanding. Recommended for anyone who wants to better comprehend the strengths and limitations of artificial intelligence, but also for anyone who likes watching computers fail hilariously."—Gretchen McCulloch, New York Times bestselling author of Because Internet
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The point is well taken. It is easy to under-eastimate the limitations of AI if you do not consider that human intelligence is more than just being clever.

Point well taken

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really funny listening to the AI's outputs. Great lady reading the book too. Amazing content and a nice overview on where we stand with AI. Definitely recommend

Excellent audio book

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This is a great overview.

I especially appreciated the clear-headed and realistic analysis of the present and future of AI and machine learning.

Clear-headed information

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WOW! Brace yourself for possibly one of the most disappointing and yet weirdly entertaining right near the end listens you will have. The author is repetitious to the point of being nauseous. ( perhaps she intended this for a 4-year-old audience?)

At the beginning of the book you are treated to what feels like 30 minutes of being moo-ed at. I mean moo as in like a bovine cow. It is so annoying. I have no words to describe it. The author clearly thinks this is funny.. It is not.

There are several parts in the book where she thinks she is being funny, someone really needs to tell her she's not funny.

Then we delve into the world of recipes. Chapter after chapter; we are treated to examples of horrifically bad recipes. Honey. we get it after two examples, AI is bad at recipes. We are adults not 4-year-olds, please move on.

Thankfully the narrator has tremendous talent and is 100% the only thing that saves this read and makes it worth listening to.

I believe the author has a blog and this is a collection of her blog stories...perhaps her blogs are spaced far apart and this leads her to be very, very repetitious since her regular readers are not accustomed to having all of the stories mashed together so closely.

I would recommend reading chapter 1 skipping the cow bovine mowing then chapter 4 and then the last chapter. You will have missed nothing.

You're welcome!

Stop MOO-ing and pretend you care about your reader

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They should definitely not have had the narrator read all the detailed binary and testing numbers and sounds written in the book. This is the first time I’ve ever not completed an audiobook.

It is extraordinarily annoying.

Terrible as audiobook

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