You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane

If you’ve ever laughed at an AI-generated pickup line or marveled at a bot’s weirdly human mistakes, Janelle Shane has probably been behind it. In You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, she turns her viral experiments with neural networks into one of the funniest and most surprisingly deep introductions to artificial intelligence you’ll ever read.

Through examples ranging from AI-generated recipes to hilariously failed image recognitions, Shane shows how machine learning actually works — and how it misfires. She explains the logic (and illogic) behind algorithms, showing how biases sneak in, why context confuses machines, and how AIs sometimes reflect the worst parts of human data.

Why You Should Read It

This isn’t your average tech manual, this ebook is a comedy of digital errors with serious lessons. Shane makes AI understandable and entertaining, proving that you can learn the mechanics of machine learning while laughing out loud. Perfect for readers who want to get smart about AI without getting buried in equations or corporate jargon.