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Meat Computers of the World, Unite!

By KIM BELLARD Until a couple of days ago I hadn’t heard of the phrase “meat computer.” Apparently this has been around for some time, and, as Lora Kelley discusses in The New York Times, the tech elites are increasingly using it, either as a way to humanize AI or as a way to disparage what humans can do relative to AI (e.g., Elon Musk posted last summer, “We are all dumb meat computers compared to digital superintelligence.”). Raphaël Millière, an associate professor at the University of Oxford, told Ms. Kelley that the metaphor aims to“move the public perception on how humanlike...