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Getty ImagesIt's quite a privilege being one of the last, whole humans.more Technically Incorrect I'm conscious that in the tangible future, the artists formerly known as humans will be a touching hybrid of flesh and chips.Perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised, then, when Microsoft's researchers came along to slightly hasten the despairing future.It all seemed so innocent and so very science-y. The headline of the researchers' paper was creatively opaque: "Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech…