You Look Like a Factor and I Love You: How Synthetic Intelligence Works and Why It is Making the World a Weirder Place

“A deft, informative, and sometimes screamingly humorous primer on the ways in which machine studying can (and sometimes does) go improper.” —Margaret Harris, Physics World

“You seem like a factor and I really like you” is without doubt one of the greatest pickup traces ever…in line with a man-made intelligence skilled by the scientist Janelle Shane, creator of the favored weblog AI Weirdness. Shane creates foolish AIs that discover ways to identify colours of paint, create the perfect recipes, and even flirt (badly) with people—all to know the expertise that governs a lot of our human lives.

We depend on AI each day, trusting it for issues each huge and small, from unlocking our telephones to hospital care. However how sensible is AI actually…? Shane delivers the reply to each AI query you’ve ever requested, and a few you undoubtedly haven’t—comparable to: How can a pc design the proper sandwich? What does robot-generated Harry Potter fan fiction sound like? And is the world’s greatest Halloween costume actually “vampire hog bride”?
On this sensible, typically hilarious introduction to essentially the most fascinating science of our time, Shane reveals how these machines be taught, fail, and adapt—and the way they replicate each the perfect and worst of humanity.
"I can't consider a greater approach to study synthetic intelligence, and I've by no means had a lot enjoyable alongside the way in which." —Adam Grant, New York Occasionsbestselling creator of Originals