You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: A quirky investigation into why AI does not always work

Book review Everyday AI has the approximate intelligence of an earthworm, according to Janelle Shane, a research scientist at the University of Colorado but better known as an AI blogger. Since AI is both complicated and massively hyped, and therefore widely misunderstood, her new book is a useful corrective. You Look Like a Thing and I love You is both funny and annoying. It is based partly on content from the author's AI Weirdness blog, where she recounts what happens when you use artificial intelligence for unusual purposes. Examples include creating chat-up lines (one result being the title of the book), writing recipes, telling jokes, sorting tasty sandwiches from disgusting ones, or creating robots for crowd control.