Andrew Ng Says NLP's Gatekeeping Culture Is Gone, Sparking Debate

Andrew Ng remarked that the old gatekeeping attitude in NLP conferences has disappeared, saying "thankfully." Researchers Tal Linzen and Andrew Wilson then bantered on X that traditional NLP researchers still exist—they just don't attend COLM anymore.

2026-10-11 ~ 2026-10-11 · 3 related posts

• Andrew Ng: The 'Real NLP Person Who Respects Language' Gatekeeping Is Finally Gone — andrewgwils · 2026-10-11
• The 'respect language' NLP conference culture is gone — they just don't go to COLM — tallinzen · 2026-10-11
• NLP researchers joke they're not gone, just 'obsolete' in the LLM era — andrewgwils · 2026-10-11