Who is Janelle Shane?

Janelle writes and speaks about artificial intelligence. She’s also a research scientist in optics. More on Janelle!

She runs a machine learning humor blog at aiweirdness.com, where she writes about the sometimes hilarious, sometimes unsettling ways that machine learning algorithms get things wrong. A neural network generated these paint colors, and there’s a LOT more weirdness where that came from. Get bonus content when aiweirdness updates!

Janelle is the author of You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why it’s Making the World a Weirder Place. Learn more about the book!

She regularly appears at events around the world, and is a 2019 TED fellow. Book Janelle for an event!

Janelle is almost certainly not a robot.