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

The following is an excerpt of You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane. Listen to a radio interview with Janelle Shane about the mistakes artificial intelligence can make. Will the music, movies, and novels of the future be written by AI? Maybe at least partially. AI-generated art can be striking, weird, and unsettling: infinitely morphing tulips; glitchy humans with half-melted faces; skies full of hallucinated dogs. AT. rex may turn into flowers or fruit; the Mona Lisa may take on a goofy grin; a piano riff may turn into an electric guitar solo.

Artificial intelligence can do some amazing things, but it's not perfect. Research scientist Dr. Janelle Shane has been cataloging "the sometimes hilarious, sometimes unsettling ways that algorithms get things wrong" on her website, AI Weirdness, and dives deeper into the topic in her new book, out this week. Time and time again, Dr. Shane's neural nets ingest the data she throws at them and spits out some strange stuff--from inedible recipes (horseradish brownies, anyone?) to bizarre cat names and paint colors from hell. At first glance, Dr. Shane's book--You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place--seems like a lighthearted, cartoon-enhanced look at AI, but there are some lessons about human vulnerabilities. We spoke to Dr. Shane to find out why she wrote the book and what she hopes we'll learn from it.

Janelle Shane has a PhD in engineering, a masters in physics, and, in her spare time, she experiments with training an AI to understand humans. Shane will discuss and sign You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place ($28.00 This is a hilarious look under the hood of artificial intelligence, the technology that's changing the world--and why it's more clueless than we think. Shane has taught A.I. to tell knock-knock jokes, design the perfect sandwich, and even flirt with humans. The title of this book was her algorithm's idea of a perfect pick-up line.