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Yale Review Publishes 'Chasing Alice' Essay from First Encounters with AI Collection

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Nina Beguš@ninabegus

Sheila's essay 'Chasing Alice,' which is a part of our collection 'First Encounters with AI,' is published in the Yale Review's summer issue! Enjoy. Link in reply

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Nina Beguš@ninabegus

Chasing Alice: https://yalereview.org/article/sheila-heti-chasing-alice

The collection is coming out in the fall and is currently 50% with the code SPRING26: https://press.umich.edu/Books/F/First-Encounters-with-AI2

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rina@chthonic_youth

@ninabegus @round wow cool

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William Fitzpatrick@WriterScience

@ninabegus The dialogues between the author and chatbot remind me of how Heti uses the I Ching in Motherood: both imbue a deterministic, impersonal process as having intention of its own

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Nina Beguš@ninabegus

@WriterScience That's a great association, thank you! I should ask her about this during our public chat

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