I've encountered a lot of artificial intelligences, both the ones I've trained for my blog AI Weirdness, and the ones I've written about for my book on artificial intelligence, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why it's Making the World a Weirder Place. I focus on the machine learning algorithms that exist today, the ones that sort spam, tag photos, and drive cars. We call them AI, but they're as different from the AI of science fiction as a toaster is from a person. In the book, I spend a lot of time explaining why today's AIs, with their tiny worm brains, don't understand their tasks or the human world. They won't be taking over from people, but they also won't be saving us by questioning bad orders.