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You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

Janelle Shane

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I didn't do it on purpose, but I read "You look like a thing and I love you"[0] followed by "I, Robot"[1] and that combination was really fun. The ideas Isaac Asimov put forward in I, Robot (written in the 1940/50s!) juxtaposed with a factual description of the current use of AI and the unusual side effects was really cool. 0: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44286534-you-look-like-a... (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44286534-you-look-like-a-thing-and-i-love-you) 1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41804.I_Robot

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