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9 Shocking Ways to Get the Perfect Summer Brain: A Review of Gyms
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Daniel Johannes Rosnes' playful review of Kyle Booten's Gyms sees Rosnes at the mercy of an AI writing companion, who aides his reflection on the exercises Booten provides and the ways in which they reveal the potentialities and pitfalls of large language models.
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