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Why algorithms love giraffes and create hilarious recipes
Chop your flour and peel some rosemary. Recipe instructions like this say a lot about AI intelligence, says Janelle Shane – and that’s not to mention the giraffes Technology 18 December 2019 Jess KornackiAs a child, what did you want to do when you grew up? I wrote my first science book when I was…

Chop your flour and peel some rosemary. Recipe instructions like this say a lot about AI intelligence, says Janelle Shane – and that’s not to mention the giraffes
Technology
18 December 2019

Jess Kornacki
As a child, what did you want to do when you grew up?
I wrote my first science book when I was 5. I decided the world needed to know about horses and that, as I had once seen a horse in real life, I was uniquely qualified to write about them.
Your book is about why AI is making the world weirder. What do you mean?
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