Andrew Ng: The 'Real NLP Person Who Respects Language' Gatekeeping Is Finally Gone
andrewgwils · x · 2026-10-11
Andrew Ng observes that the old NLP-conference attitude of gatekeeping over whether you're a "real NLP person who respects language" has disappeared — and says good riddance, reflecting how the LLM era has loosened the field's linguistic purism.
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