NLP researchers joke they're not gone, just 'obsolete' in the LLM era
andrewgwils · x · 2026-10-11
A brief X exchange between AI researchers Andrew Wilson and Tal Linzen: Linzen quipped that traditional NLP researchers still exist—they just don't go to COLM anymore. Wilson shot back that swapping "real" for "obsolete" makes the line work just as well. A small window into the identity anxiety of classic NLP academia in the LLM era.
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