You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

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You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

Janelle Shane

First published 2019Original language EN

8.18.1 / 10
Score out of 1058 ratingsConfidence 28%: this much of the score is the readers’ own

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About the book

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place is a 2019 nonfiction book by optics research scientist Janelle Shane. The book documents experiences the author and others have had with machine learning programs, and discusses what "intelligence" means in the context of "artificial intelligence" (AI).

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