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By: Vauhini Vara
Narrated by: Vauhini Vara, Anastasia Davidson
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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.©2025 Vauhini Vara (P)2025 Penguin Random House Computer Science Essays Machine Theory & Artificial Intelligence Science
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The subject and story line is interesting. The title is a bit misleading and doesn't capture the extend of the actual content. For me the content was a bit too repetitive. Overall I believe the book's main points could have been made with less content.

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