They’re made out of weights(maxleiter.com)
1427 points by MaxLeiter | 633 comments
A short fiction blog post parodying Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat," with characters marveling that language models are made only of weights.
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They're made out of meat (1991)(terrybisson.com)
601 points by surprisetalk | 161 comments
Terry Bisson's 1991 short science fiction story "They're Made Out of Meat," hosted on the author's website.
They're Made Out of Meat (1991)(mit.edu)
362 points by mailarchis | 122 comments
The full text of Terry Bisson's 1991 short science fiction story in which aliens are amazed to discover that humans are sentient beings made of meat.