Searches
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Atlantic Books
Publishing:1st May '25
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 1st May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
When it was released to the public in 2022, ChatGPT awakened the world to a secretive project: teaching A.I.-powered machines to write and talk like human beings. Its creators had a sweeping ambition - to get machines to communicate for us. But if this came to pass, would it be liberation or subjugation?
Vauhini Vara, an award-winning tech journalist and editor, has long been interrogating how technology has changed how she uses language, from discovering online chat rooms as a preteen to using social media as the Wall Street Journal's first Facebook reporter to testing early versions of ChatGPT, all while adding to the trove of human-created material that A.I. exploits. Searches illuminates Big Tech's incursion into our lives, while proposing that by harnessing the collective imagination that taught us to communicate in the first place, we might invent a nobler, freer relationship with our machines and, ultimately, with one another.
I cannot imagine a better guide through the infuriating, labyrinthine underworld of technology than Vauhini Vara. Searches is so many things - heart-stoppingly sad, a formal high-wire act, a wise and funny and thoughtful encyclopedia of our modern age - but most of all it is a book about human relationships: how imperfectly we made this thing that connects us, and how we might use this thing to re-meet ourselves and each other -- Carmen Maria Machado, author of IN THE DREAM HOUSE
Searches is that rare thing: a genuinely thrilling book that breaks open existing forms and structures - not only the essay but the google search, the Amazon review, the pitch deck, the Chat GPT dialogue box, the AI-generated image - to give us something entirely new...This book will leave you changed, and stay with you for good -- Leslie Jamison, author of SPLINTERS
A riveting, provocative and deeply personal exploration of our ambivalent relationship with technology that spans from our earliest history to the advent of the internet to the race to dominate artificial intelligence -- Cecilia Kang, co-author of AN UGLY TRUTH
ISBN: 9781804710685
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
352 pages
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