I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.īecause I love the strange mix of logic and complete nonsense that results when bots try to imitate artifacts of human culture, I thought that this NetGalley advance read would be a lot of fun. Otherwise, they were just kind of nonsensical things with occasional insults to the subjects. I did find some of them funny, but I really only found them funny when I imagined a bot had thought of them. AI experts weighed in with the many, many reasons it was completely impossible and also pointed out that he always says he "forced a bot to watch 1,000 hours of _" and there certainly aren't 120,000 different 30 second Olive Garden commercials to even view (even an hour of Olive Garden ads would require 120 separate Olive Garden ads, then multiple that by a thousand for his 1,000 hours of ads). For instance, he apparently had an ad for Olive Garden that went viral which was supposedly written by his bot. I did a web search for more info either way and it was pretty well confirmed that yes, it was a comedian who says he forced a bot to watch 1,000 hours of each thing he parodies but it's obviously a gimmick. Pretty early on it was really apparent that it was written by a guy impersonating a bot, which takes all the fun out of it.
This book would be a lot funnier if it were really composed by a bot. It's funny at first, but then felt, despite the variety in subjects, like a re-imagination of the same joke, over and over again.Īll in all, worth a read, but small bites of it would have sufficed, I personally had a bit too much reading a whole book in that style. There's only so much absurdity of people suddenly being objects and objects eating people and dinosaurs that my brain can take. Maybe it's my fault for reading this all at once instead of taking it bit by bit, because it's just intense to get through. I guess this little trick was needed to give this some kind of grounding, but maybe he's done his job too well.Īfter a while, this just becomes mind-numbing. It's becoming clear very quickly that this hasn't really been written by a bot, but a guy who writes like a bot writing like a human. Friends, Game of Thrones, Seinfeld), Amazon reviews, powerpoint presentations, dating profiles and obituaries. We've got some mock-up scripts of well-known TV shows (e.g.
The book tackles different approaches of where a bit of nonsense can do good. It's also been known to Keaton Patti, who has written an entire book in that nonsensical AI way, for better or worse. That Artificial Intelligence humour can be hilarious has been known to me ever since an AI created an Eurovision song contest hit that would play in my head on repeat for days.
0 kommentar(er)
