搜索：数字时代的自我探寻Searches:Selfhood in the Digital AgeVauhini Vara

基本信息

出版者 ‏ : ‎ Pantheon (2025年 4月 8日)

语言 ‏ : ‎ English

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 页

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593701526

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593701522

商品重量 ‏ : ‎ 558 克

尺寸 ‏ : ‎ 15.56 x 2.22 x 23.5 cm

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

普利策奖决赛入围者《不朽的拉奥国王》的作者，对科技公司如何满足和利用人类理解和联系的渴望进行了个人探索。 • 受期待的书：《Esquire》、《外交政策》、《Lit Hub》、《电子文学》

当 2022 年 11 月向公众发布时，ChatGPT 唤醒了世界一个秘密项目：教人工智能驱动的机器写作。它的创造者有一个远大的抱负——建造不仅可以交流，而且可以比人类更好地完成各种其他活动的机器。但这个目标真的能够实现吗？如果实现了，它会导致我们的解放还是被征服？

Vauhini Vara 是一位屡获殊荣的科技记者和编辑，长期以来一直在努力解决这些问题。 2021年，她请ChatGPT的前任写一篇关于她姐姐去世的文章，结果这篇文章比她想象的更令人感动，也更令人不安。它很快就疯传了。

这段经历揭示了企业拥有的技术的力量和危险，迫使瓦拉质疑这些技术如何影响她对自己和周围世界的理解，从十几岁的时候发现在线聊天室，到作为《华尔街日报》的记者使用社交媒体，再到向 ChatGPT 寻求写作建议，同时迫使她添加到为企业谋取经济利益而利用的人造材料宝库中。在这次调查中，散布着她自己的谷歌搜索、亚马逊评论和互联网生活的其他原材料——包括开始这一切的病毒式人工智能实验。搜索阐明了技术资本主义如何塑造和利用人类的存在，同时提出，通过利用使人类的集体创造力，我们可以想象与我们的机器以及与彼此之间建立一种更自由、更强大的关系。

From the author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a personal exploration of how technology companies have both fulfilled and exploited the human desire for understanding and connection • A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: Esquire, Foreign Policy, Lit Hub, Electric Literature

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 ambition—to 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 sister’s 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 the Wall Street Journal’s first Facebook reporter, to asking ChatGPT for writing advice—while compelling her to add to the trove of human-created material exploited for corporations’ financial gain. Interspersed throughout this investigation are her own reviews, and the other raw material of internet life—including the viral AI experiment that started it all. Searches illuminates 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.

作者简介

沃希尼·瓦拉 (Vauhini Vara) 曾任《大西洋月刊》、《纽约客》和《纽约时报杂志》的记者和编辑，也是《The Immortal King Rao》和《This is Salvged》的获奖作者。她住在科罗拉多州柯林斯堡。 作者居住地： 柯林斯堡，合著者家乡： 华盛顿州西雅图

Vauhini Vara has been a reporter and editor for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, and is the prize-winning author of The Immortal King Rao and This is Salvaged. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.Author Residence: Fort Collins, COAuthor Hometown: Seattle, WA