Quotes from the AI Book "You look like a Thing And I Love You" - Janelle shane

Please don't be mislead by the title, its a book on AI. If you are wondering why the book is named like this, Author is a researcher trying to teach AI on generating "pick up lines". Thats the pickup line AI came up with 😀 . This is one of the best books I read so far on AI. Here are some quotes from the book:

Programming an AI is almost more like teaching a child than programming a computer.

The question AI is answering is not "what is the best solution?" but "What would the humans have done ?"

The narrower the AI, the smarter it seems.

The human brain is a neural network made of eighty-six billion neural networks.

Most of the times, what we asked AI to do isn't what we actually wanted them to do.

Give AI a goal - data to imitate or a reward function to maximize and they'll do it, whether or not they've actually solved your problem.

On December 2017, Google maps directed cars toward neighborhoods that were on fire. It wan't trying to kill people: it just saw that those neighborhoods had less traffic. Nobody had told it about fire.

Another program was supposed to learn to sort a list of numbers it learned instead to delete the list so that there wouldn't be any numbers out of order.

Future AI general intelligences, if they exist, could be more like a swarm of social insects than like humans.

Remember that the narrower the AI, the smarter it seems. Dealing with all the world's weirdness is a task that's beyond today's AI.

In 2019, 40% of European startups classified in the AI category didn't use any AI at all.

Here are a few questions to ask when evaluating AI claims:

• How broad is the problem ?
• where did the training data come from ?
• Does the problem require a lot of memory ?
• Is it just copying human biases ?

Catastrophic bug could develop, like the one that affected Siri for a brief period of time, causing her to respond to users saying "Call me an ambulance" with "Okay, I'll call you 'an ambulance' from now on.

There will always be a potential disconnect between what we want AI to do and what we tell it to do.

There were two companies selling books on amazon, first one selling NEW book 1.2 times of USED book price and second one is selling USED books 0.93 times of NEW books price. Because of this recurring algorithm prices jacked up by these two vendors unknowingly, "The book on fruit flies" started selling close to million dollars as the algorithms are increasing prices every day as they watch each other base price.

Happy Reading !!!