Melanie Mitchell fires back: cites recent LLM research, two NeurIPS papers
MelMitchell1 · x · 2026-10-07
Responding to Scott Alexander, Melanie Mitchell pointed to her Google Scholar page: beyond her 1980s analogy work, she's done extensive research on modern LLMs, with her two latest papers accepted at NeurIPS. She also quipped about reading her work being called 'penance'.
Related event: Scott Alexander pens open letter rebutting Pinker's AI optimism(10 posts)→
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