Book Info
- You Look Like a Thing and I Love You byCall Number: Q 335 .S463 2021ISBN: 0316525227Publication Date: 2021
- Audiobook available through Dogwood Digital Library.Download the Libby app and add the NC Community College's virtual library-- Dogwood Digital Library to your Libraries along with your local public library. Checks out digitally for 2 weeks using your Durham Tech username and password as your library card info.
Our description: Learn more about the way artificial intelligence systems are built from the programming up with a friendly (sometimes a little silly) guide that takes you through understanding what exactly it is we mean when we use the phrase "AI," how computers learn, how humans are the ultimate influencer and variable, and a little about ethics and implications. Accessible for pretty much everyone.
Reading Circle Resources
Reading Schedule
Week 1: What is this thing?
- from the book: Introduction; Chapter 1--What Is AI?; Chapter 2--AI Is Everywhere, but Where Is It Exactly? (pp. 1-60, approximately 60 pages with illustrations, annotations, and lists)
- "There Is No AI" by Jaron Lanier. The New Yorker, Apr. 20, 2023Participating in this reading circle and encountering a paywall? Email the library for article access.
Week 2: It’s learning*! (*But requires someone to hold its hand)
- from the book: Chapter 3--How Exactly Does It Learn? & Chapter 4--It’s Trying (pp. 61-139, approximately 78 pages with illustrations and lists)
Week 3: It's riding a bike [with various training wheels]!
- "AI-Created Images Are So Good Even AI Has Trouble Spotting Some" by Ann-Marie Alcántara. The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 11, 2023.Link to article on web (includes images). Participating in the reading circle and need a copy of this article with images? Contact the library for article access.
- ProQuest Central: "AI-Created Images Are So Good Even AI Has Trouble Spotting Some" by Ann-Marie Alcántara. The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 11, 2023.Does not include images from article. Access this copy of the article by logging in using your Durham Tech username and password (the same as Self-Service or Canvas).
Week 4: What do we expect of it?
- Chapter 8-- Is an AI Brain Like a Human Brain?, Chapter 9--Human Bots (Where Can You Not Expect to See AI?), Chapter 10--A Human AI Partnership, & Conclusion--Life Among Our Artificial Friends (pp. 185-235, approximately 50 pages with pictures, illustrations, and lists)
- additional text:
- Gale General Onefile Database: "These Women Tried to Warn Us about AI." by Lorena O'Neil. Rolling Stone, Aug. 12, 2023.Access this copy of the article by logging in using your Durham Tech username and password (the same as Self-Service or Canvas).
Book & Author Resources
- AI Weirdness: The Strange Side of Machine Learning [blog]Author Janelle Shane's blog.
Related Books & Resources
- Durham Tech Research Guide: Artifical IntelligenceThis guide provides Durham Tech students, faculty, and staff with some important resources regarding ChatGPT and other generative Artificial Intelligence and machine learning tools.
- Coded Bias directed by Shalini Kantayya. Premiered Mar. 22, 2021Coded Bias exposes prejudices and threats to civil liberty in facial recognition algorithms and artificial intelligence.
Recommended by your Durham Tech Colleagues
- "Students’ Perspectives on Using AI" by Sarah Buszka, Jeremy Cortez, and Isabella Meltzer. Educause, Sept. 6, 2023."Students are using artificial intelligence and other tools to assist them in their academic careers. Three students share their viewpoints on the tools they use and how using these tools helps them in their coursework and prepares them for the professional world."
- "Kids judge Alexa smarter than Roomba, but say both deserve kindness." Science Daily, Apr. 10, 2023.Summary of Flanagan, T., Wong, G., & Kushnir, T. (2023). The minds of machines: Children's beliefs about the experiences, thoughts, and morals of familiar interactive technologies. Developmental Psychology, 59(6), 1017–1031.
- "Forward Thinking for the Integration of AI into Clinical Trials" by Brian Mai, Andrea Roman, and Alondra Suarez. Clinical Researcher, 37(3). Apr. 10, 2023."[A]lthough there are challenges and drawbacks to implementing AI in clinical trials, it has potential benefits that make it a viable tool for the pharmaceutical industry."