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This book was riveting. I read so little nonfiction so when I love something you know it‘s REALLY great. I laughed SO hard and also learned a ton. Maybe I‘m an expert on AI now! Jk :) But truthfully, if you‘ve ever wanted to understand AI better, Janelle Shane explains things in a way that is so approachable, providing concrete and hilarious examples. The thesis - that robots are not smart enough to take over the planet - is also quite reassuring.

Fourth #owlsreadingchallenge subject passed!!

HERBOLOGY:

🌟Herbology: a book with a plant on cover or title - Psalm for the Wild Built
🌟Pomona sprout: character with herb name - Good Company (Flora)
🌟Greenhouses: green cover - You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

My year in review: goals met! Some interesting trends in rate of reading throughout the year (summer months look like my highest reading months) and a neat breakdown of genres, format, and fiction vs nonfiction… def need to ramp up on nonfiction on the new year!
Will also pay attention to format on #storygraph going forward cause I know that audio % is way too low 😂 #2021stats #readingstats #thestorygraph
(Booked tagged is last finished of year)

If you have ever wondered how artificial intelligence really works, you need this book. Clear explanations, hilarious examples of AI output, and super-cute cartoon AIs. I borrowed this from the library but will have to get a copy to share with my family (maybe as an Xmas present so I can borrow it back 😂)

The little AIs in this book are SO CUTE and I want one on a T-shirt 😍

“ConceptNet Numberbatch (no, not the British actor)”

Glad I wasn‘t drinking when I read this, or I would have sprayed the drink out my nose and needed to buy the library a new copy of this book 🤣

I have never laughed so hard while reading a tech book.

This was weird and interesting! I learned a bit about artificial intelligence in a humorous and understandable way. Some of the silliest parts were about training an AI to generate new recipes after showing it a large data set of recipes. This is one example of a recipe it invented. I decided to stick with more conventional ingredient combinations, though, and just made blueberry muffins!

Here are the books I received as birthday gifts (it was last week)! I‘m excited to dive into them. (Actually, The Trouble With Goats and Sheep was also a birthday present and I‘m halfway through that, so it missed the picture by being on my nightstand.) Out of this group, I think I‘ll read the tagged book first. It sounds fun and different.

Any in this bunch that you‘ve read?

The title had me, if you put a bunch of pick up lines into an AI, what lines will it develop? super offensive ones along with some cute ones 😂 This book was really funny and easy to understand. So I have fewer worries about AI taking over the world 😉 but more worries about self driving cars. I laughed out loud multiple times especially when AI learns and acts like a toddler by finding every shortcut possible. Great nonfiction book!

Only on p58, I just love this with all my nerdy absurdist heart. 😍😍😍🤖🤖🐛💕
#nonfictionnovember