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AI: Not scary in the way you think

You look like a thing and I love you by Janelle Shane

July 21, 2021 by kittenkong42 1 Comment

You say AI and people immediately start thinking about Skynet, The Matrix, or HAL 9000. We have been programmed by decades of literature and film to associate the concept of AI with human like intelligence and thought processes that sees these creations go rogue and decide to “kill all humans”. Probably Boston Dynamics scary dancing robots and “dogs” are not helping here either! But as this book shows the reality is closer to the kind of decisions made in “I Robot” where a decision is […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: artificial intelligence, Janelle Shane, robots

kittenkong42's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: artificial intelligence, Janelle Shane, robots ·
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You look like me and I love you

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

May 19, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

There have been so many “I gave a bot hours of Hallmark movies / Olive Garden commercials / what have you and it generated this content” posts obviously written by people out there that I forgot how much I love actual AI gone amok. Inspiration Bot makes me cackle on the regular. My favorite NewsRadio episode involved Jimmy James’ book “Jimmy James: Corporate Lion Tamer” being translated into Japanese and then back into English, resulting in “Macho Business Donkey Wrestler.” Don’t even get me started […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor Tagged With: AI weirdness, Janelle Shane, Saturday morning breakfast cereal

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:62 · Genres: Comedy/Humor · Tags: AI weirdness, Janelle Shane, Saturday morning breakfast cereal ·
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