📚 Book Club: You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

📚 Book Club: You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place

Join us in May to read and discuss You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane.

We rely on AI every day for recommendations, for translations, and to put cat ears on our selfie videos. We also trust AI with matters of life and death, on the road and in our hospitals. But how smart is AI really, and how does it solve problems, understand humans, and even drive self-driving cars?

Shane delivers the answers to every AI question you've ever asked, and some you definitely haven't--like, how can a computer design the perfect sandwich? What does robot-generated Harry Potter fan-fiction look like? And is the world's best Halloween costume really "Vampire Hog Bride"?

📘 2023 Book Club Selections

We have several upcoming book clubs. Our organizing team picked a wide range of books from different authors and spanning different genres. Join us for the books you are interested in discussing with us. Events will be posted on Meetup.

March 29 - The Light We Carry - Michelle Obama
May 31 - You Look Like a Thing and I Love You - Janelle Shane
July 26 - Deep Work - Cal Newport
September 27 - Foreverland - Heather Havrilesky
November 29 - The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa

If you are a Goodreads member, you can join the WWCode Portland Book Club group to stay in touch.

⏰ Agenda

6:00 - Welcome & Introductions
6:15 - General Discussion
7:30 - Closing Remarks

☎️ Join us in Zoom

TBA. The Zoom link will be sent via email 48 hours before the event.

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