Where did NLP researchers go? They now lead frontier lab training teams
khademinori · x · 2026-10-16
Douwe Kiela (Late Interaction) asks how NLP researchers coped with their field being "solved" by LLMs and absorbed into every other domain — then points out that the grads leading training teams at nearly every frontier lab come from exactly that community. The quoted poster suggests studying NLP's experience as a playbook for fields now being reshaped by LLMs.
Related event: Researchers Debate Whether LLMs 'Solved' NLP(4 posts)→
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