關於
Ted Chiang (姜峯楠, born 1967) is an American science fiction writer of Taiwanese descent, widely regarded as one of the most acclaimed authors in the genre despite a deliberately small output. A computer science graduate of Brown University, he works as a technical writer and has published two landmark short story collections, Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) and Exhalation (2019). His 1998 novella "Story of Your Life" was adapted into the 2016 film Arrival. In recent years he has become one of the sharpest critics of AI hype through essays in The New Yorker, including "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web" and "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art," and was named to Time's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2023.
主要貢獻
- Wrote "Story of Your Life" (1998), the basis for Denis Villeneuve's film Arrival (2016)
- Won four Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and six Locus Awards
- Authored the genre-defining collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation
- Coined the influential critique of LLMs as "a blurry JPEG of the web" (The New Yorker, 2023)
- Named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in AI (2023)
書籍
影片與訪談
2025 DeMott Lecture: Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang's DeMott Lecture at Amherst College, asking whether human beings have free will — contrasting the fixed fate of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex with Scrooge's power to change course in Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
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Ted Chiang: Beyond techno-utopias and techno-dystopias
Chiang argues for a more nuanced view of technology that resists both utopian and dystopian extremes.
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Ted Chiang on Free Will, Time Travel, Many Worlds, Genetic Engineering, and Hard Science Fiction
A wide-ranging conversation on the philosophical and scientific ideas behind his fiction, including free will, determinism, and the implications of AI.
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思想連結
娥蘇拉．勒瑰恩
思想同道科幻小說作家與思想先驅
2014 年領取美國國家圖書獎時，勒瑰恩呼喚的是「記得自由的作家——詩人、有遠見的人，那些更大現實的寫實主義者」。此後評論者便把這個說法當成姜峯楠的固定描述；Public Books 為他寫的專文，標題直接就是〈Realist of a Larger Reality〉。他自己從未聲稱這條系譜，而這正是它成立的部分原因——那是讀者各自抵達的判斷。兩人都把推想小說當作認真對待一個想法的方式，而不是替它做裝飾；本站援引他們兩位，問的也是同一件事：透過建造一個不屬於我們的心智，來追問心智是什麼。
publicbooks.org · youtube.com
Leo Tolstoy
思想同道Novelist & Moral Philosopher
一份跨越百年的共鳴，而非引用。托爾斯泰把藝術定義為某人曾經體驗過、並刻意傳遞給他人的感受；姜峯楠 2024 年的文章〈Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art〉主張，語言需要「想要溝通」的意圖，而藝術是許多這類選擇的總和。兩人都把藝術放在發送的那一端、放在一個真的有意要說的人身上，所以他們對生成式藝術的回答相同，也不會因產出看起來多好而改變。
en.wikipedia.org · Ted Chiang, "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art", The New Yorker, 31 Aug 2024
Jack Clark
思想同道共同創辦人暨政策主管・Anthropic
一組隔著圍籬的對照：Clark 在他的政策電子報《Import AI》裡寫科幻短篇，並把「寫這些故事」列為自己的興趣；Chiang 則以小說讓人真正認真思考機器心智——比任何論證都更有效。兩人都伸手抓住虛構，因為這個問題最誠實的形式——與這樣的東西比鄰而居究竟是什麼感覺——本來就抗拒被化約成預測。他們會給出非常不同的答案，而那正是重點。
Stephen Fry
思想同道演員、作家暨科技評論人
這是一組並置，而非真正的交會：2023 年，Fry 把自己的聲音——一副他才剛發現已被 AI 複製的聲音——借給了 Nick Cave 的一封信，信中稱一首 ChatGPT 寫的歌是「a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human」（對人之為人的荒誕嘲弄）。姜峯楠 2024 年的文章〈Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art〉則以工程師的語言做出同樣的拒絕。論證由 Cave 與姜峯楠提出；而 Fry——這位自己的樂器已被複製的表演者——則是那個以肉身承載它的人。
theredhandfiles.com · youtube.com
