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  "textContent": "Are humans just LLMs in meat suits? Arturo Nereu doesn't quite think so, but in a recent essay, he lays out the uncomfortable parallels between how large language models work and how he experiences his own thinking. The more he interacts with AI tools for research and development, the more he notices the overlap — and the more he wonders whether the comparison goes deeper than metaphor. — Read the rest \n\nThe post The case for thinking of yourself as a meat-based language model appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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