Janelle Shane Books
Janelle Shane is an optics research scientist and writer known for her work on artificial intelligence and machine learning. She runs the popular blog 'AI Weirdness', where she shares entertaining experiments with neural networks and explores the quirks of AI systems.
Known for: You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
Books by Janelle Shane
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
This book offers a humorous and accessible exploration of artificial intelligence, explaining how machine learning algorithms actually work and why they often behave in unexpected, sometimes absurd ways. Through real examples and experiments, Janelle Shane demystifies AI, showing both its potential and its limitations in everyday life.
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Defining AI and Machine Learning
When I use the term ‘artificial intelligence,’ I don’t mean a sentient robot from fiction. I mean the collection of systems we humans design to perform tasks—sometimes narrow, sometimes complex—that seem to require something like thought. Many of those systems are not nearly as capable as popular na...
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Training Data and Bias
The quality of an AI system lives and dies by its training data. That’s a truth I emphasize again and again because it’s easy to forget that even the most sophisticated algorithms can’t escape their input. If your data is flawed, biased, or incomplete, your AI will inherit those flaws—and amplify th...
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About Janelle Shane
Janelle Shane is an optics research scientist and writer known for her work on artificial intelligence and machine learning. She runs the popular blog 'AI Weirdness', where she shares entertaining experiments with neural networks and explores the quirks of AI systems.
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