Searches By Vauhini Vara New Arc Copy Paperback Book

Description: Searches: Selfhood In The Digital Age by Vauhini Vara Brand New Arc Copy Paperback Genre: Science Essays When it was released to the public in November 2022, ChatGPT awakened the world to a secretive project: teaching AI-powered machines to write. Its creators had a sweeping ambitionto build machines that could not only communicate, but could do all kinds of other activities, better than humans ever could. But was this goal actually achievable? And if reached, would it lead to our liberation or our subjugation? Vauhini Vara, an award-winning tech journalist and editor, had long been grappling with these questions. In 2021, she asked a predecessor of ChatGPT to write about her sisters death, resulting in an essay that was both more moving and more disturbing than she could have imagined. It quickly went viral. The experience, revealing both the power and the danger of corporate-owned technologies, forced Vara to interrogate how these technologies have influenced her understanding of her self and the world around her, from discovering online chat rooms as a preteen, to using social media as theWall Street Journals first Facebook reporter, to asking ChatGPT for writing advicewhile compelling her to add to the trove of human-created material exploited for corporations financial gain. Interspersed throughout this investigation are her own Google searches, Amazon reviews, and the other raw material of internet lifeincluding the viral AI experiment that started it all.Searchesilluminates how technological capitalism is both shaping and exploiting human existence, while proposing that by harnessing the collective creativity that makes humans unique, we might imagine a freer, more empowered relationship with our machines and, ultimately, with one another. Fire ii

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