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  "textContent": "Max Leiter rewrote Terry Bisson's 1991 story \"They're Made Out of Meat\" — the one where two aliens are aghast that humans think with meat — as a dialogue about large language models. This time, the thing that shouldn't be able to hold a conversation is made of numbers. — Read the rest \n\nThe post 'They're Made Out of Meat,' rewritten as a dialogue about LLMs appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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