‘They’re Made Out of Meat,’ rewritten as a dialogue about LLMs
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.
“We opened it up. There’s no dictionary in there, no grammar r…
