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Christopher Manning

@chrmanning.bsky.social
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Stanford Linguistics and Computer Science. Director, Stanford AI Lab. Founder of @stanfordnlp.bsky.social . #NLP nlp.stanford.edu/~manning

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Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
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Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Stanford scholars introduced an open-source AI agent that learns how to navigate websites by mimicking childhood learning – an approach that could lead to more efficient, transparent, and privacy-conscious AI: hai.stanford.edu/news/an-open... @chrmanning.bsky.social @shikharmurty.bsky.social
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An Open-Source AI Agent for Doing Tasks on the Web | Stanford HAI
NNetNav learns how to navigate websites by mimicking childhood learning through exploration.
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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Science Under Threat in the United States: How scientists and institutions should respond
Individual researchers and university leaders need to make the case for science to their elected representatives and to the public at large.
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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
US tech firms - IME - rely heavily on grads of higher ed in general, and US higher ed in particular... And yet I've not heard much noise from the Pichais, Nadellas, Zuckerbergs, Cooks, Benioffs, Sus, Jassys, Huangs, etc. about attacks on higher education... Am I missing it or does it not exist?
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?
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Large AI models are cultural and social technologies
Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
If you asked me to come up with ways to sabotage America from within, I wouldn’t do as good a job as Republicans have done this year. Just a bottomless pit of economic self owns.
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Chinese nationals banned from US student visas under new House GOP proposal
Rep. Riley Moore is leading a bill to ban Chinese nationals from getting student visas in the U.S.
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Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The US 🇺🇸 under Trump is pretty decisively committed to unilateral on-whim trade tariffs. For countries like Canada 🇨🇦 and Australia 🇦🇺 that still believe in rules-based free trade, maybe it’s time to think much more seriously about getting the EU and then … moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/03/14/e...
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EU–CPTPP Integration: A Strategic Roadmap in a Multipolar World
In an era of shifting global trade dynamics and rising geopolitical tensions, the European Union (EU) faces a critical strategic choice.
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’m fascinated by both Schumer’s logics and by the reaction to his logics from the Dems. The former is Schumer’s failure to understand the broader anger toward Congress. The latter is the public’s failure to understand the trap that the GOP set re the administrative state. There is no win here.
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Stanford NLP Group @stanfordnlp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
An introductory talk by @chrmanning.bsky.social on “Large Language Models in 2025 – How much understanding and intelligence?” at the Workshop on a Public AI Assistant to Worldwide Knowledge at Stanford, covering 3 eras of LLMs, RAG, Agents, DeepSeek-R1, using LLMs, …. Video: youtu.be/5Aer7MUSuSU
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Tiyash @tiyash.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I am concerned about AI but late at night, alone working on a proposal, I was glad ChatGPT had my back as I hit submit 😀.. Reminded me of @chrmanning.bsky.social’s mention in a talk of the 'Real World Utility Test' - early adoption of tech moves forward when it’s genuinely useful, concerns and all.
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Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
As @NIST Scientist Emeritus Ellen Voorhees said in 2000 (!), IR focused on “retrieving a ranked list of documents” but often “a user has a specific question and would much prefer that the system return the answer itself”. It’s super to see this becoming reality with neural LLMs!
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Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
In 2013, at AKBC 2013 and other workshops, I gave a talk titled “Texts are Knowledge”. This was well before there were any transformer LLMs—indeed before the invention of attention—and my early neural NLP ideas were rudimentary. 🔮 Nevertheless, the talk was quite prophetic!
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Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The new Computing and Data Science (CoDa) building at @stanforduniversity.bsky.social is beautiful, with many lovely spaces, and a great, if already too crowded, Voyager Coffee coffee shop. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
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Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
In this collection of perspectives, @stanfordhai.bsky.social senior fellows offer a multidisciplinary discussion of what #DeepSeek means for AI and society at large. hai.stanford.edu/news/how-dis... @chrmanning.bsky.social @jlanday.bsky.social @yejinchoinka.bsky.social @amyzegart.bsky.social
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How Disruptive Is DeepSeek? Stanford HAI Faculty Discuss China’s New Model
Experts weigh in on the implications of DeepSeek’s open-source model and its impact on technology, geopolitics, the arts, and more.
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Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How can it be that the Apple iOS data detector pop-up gives you options to call or copy but not text? We’re not in the twentieth century any more. The twenty-first century is almost a quarter done.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Shikhar Murty @shikharmurty.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Want to make a browser agent for *any* domain like banking or healthcare? We propose methods for training LLMs with open-ended, unsupervised interaction on live websites: ✅ OSS SoTA on WebVoyager ✅ world's smallest high-performing web-agent Try it here: nnetnav.dev
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Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Maybe vilifying China & Chinese people, and increasing visa hassles & investigations aren’t smart moves for keeping the US lead in AI—given the number of engineers trained in China vs US? “Many Chinese students are not that interested in full-time jobs in the US.” restofworld.org/2025/china-a...
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DeepSeek’s rise shows why China’s top AI talent is skipping Silicon Valley
Young Chinese engineers focus on homegrown innovation, drawn by fewer visa hurdles and the chance to build a future on their own terms.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I went to a Silicon Valley AI retreat in 2019. Turned out it was run by EA and Longtermists before I knew what those things were. One activity was to envision future scenarios involving AI. I told a story about the dangers of regulatory capture. I was shunned for the rest of the event.
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Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” A good historical perspective: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...
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History Repeating
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Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Got my first spam message on @signal.org I guess that’s evidence that the platform is growing?
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
New developments on our 'LLMs can do metalinguistics' paper! We created sentences and had GPT3.5, 4, o1 and Llama 3 analyze them as a linguist would. We had 3 graduate students in linguistics evaluate how good linguists LLMs really are.
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Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I feel like I can see America changing before my eyes* “The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change.” – Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower *Okay, maybe this feeling was exaggerated this morning by the Navy vs. Oklahoma Armed Forces Bowl game being on in the barbershop, but still …
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Six months ago someone put a for-loop around GPT-4o and got 50% on the ARC-AGI test set and 72% on a held-out training set redwoodresearch.substack.com/p/getting-50... Just sample 8000 times with beam search. o3 is probably a more principled search technique...
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Getting 50% (SoTA) on ARC-AGI with GPT-4o
You can just draw more samples
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Jacob Eisenstein @jacobeisenstein.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Just got back from Vancouver and I was amazed at how their downtown is full of cool little small businesses. The secret is … socialism? The government takes over leases of long-vacant spaces and sublets small subdivisions to locally-owned businesses and nonprofits. www.postalley.org/2020/07/20/h...
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How Seattle Could Rescue Small Retail
The city government could buy up leases for empty storefronts and then market them at low rates to non-profits and small retail shops.
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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 17/12/2024
This is so far our best call for papers! We completely re-thought what a CFP is, and.... mostly copied last year's while surgically increasing some numbers
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
At #NeurIPS2024, the keynote speaker perpetuated explicit racist stereotypes against Chinese students. Generalizations against a community subject to discrimination, even as an “example”, further provokes discrimination. Below, video of an audience member’s perfect response.
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Robert Csordas @robertcsordas.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Come visit our poster "MoEUT: Mixture-of-Experts Universal Transformers" on Friday at 4:30 in East Exhibit Hall A-C #1907 on #NeurIPS2024. With Kazuki Irie, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Christopher Potts and @chrmanning.bsky.social.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Thanks to @alexpasternak.bsky.social and @fastcompany.com for this lovely interview and review of The AI Mirror, part of their AI20 (with @abeba.bsky.social, @sashamtl.bsky.social + others)
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How philosopher Shannon Vallor delivered the year's best critique of AI
The author of 'The AI Mirror' worries about what we're doing to our moral muscles as we grow more reliant on machines.
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Surya Ganguli @suryaganguli.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Absolutely. I worry about an entire generation that can’t go from a blank page to a coherent, logical, articulate argument on their own. This process is not just writing: it is thinking. If we cede all our writing to AI we cede also our very ability to think.
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Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
20+ years late, I see Gosse Bouma wrote a lovely review of Avery Andrews and my Complex Predicates and Information Spreading in LFG in Studies in Language: “this book makes a valuable contribution to the theory of LFG and feature-based theories of grammar” www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
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Review of “Complex Predicates and Information Spreading in LFG” by Avery D. Andrews &Christopher D. Manning | John Benjamins
Welcome to e-content platform of John Benjamins Publishing Company. Here you can find all of our electronic books and journals, for purchase and download or subscriber access.
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Stanford NLP Group @stanfordnlp.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The extraordinary recent takeover of ML/AI by #NLP is well-known but insufficiently reflected on. Look at the @neuripsconf.bsky.social tutorials in 2024! neurips.cc/virtual/2024... 14 tutorials; 6 have "LLM" in the title; 4 more cover foundation models, with large NLP coverage. That's > 70% 😲
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NeurIPS 2024 TutorialsNeurIPS 2024
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Stanford NLP Group @stanfordnlp.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Natural Language Processing—artificial intelligence that uses human language—has been on a roll lately. You’ve probably noticed! So the Stanford NLP Group has been growing, and diversifying into lots of new topics, including agents, language model programs, and socially aware #NLP. nlp.stanford.edu
Group picture of people in the Stanford NLP Group gathered in front of the shores of Lake Tahoe.
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Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
America has long been a magnet for talent from around the world, powering an amazing innovation ecosystem. But we're working hard to destroy that advantage. 🤷‍♂️
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Rob Reich @robreich.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I had the incredible good fortune to be part of the team that created #GivingTuesday in 2012. Tomorrow, December 3, is #GivingTuesday, a day for the simple and uncomplicated practice of generosity.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 29/11/2024
I would put this even more strongly: open source AI is probably our only realistic chance to avoid a terrifying increase in concentration of power. I do not want to live in a world where the people with all the money also have all the intellectual power.
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Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I think we saw this in the AI/ML sphere, not just in politics …
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Shikhar Murty @shikharmurty.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
ACL syntax track reviewers >> almost any other conference. These folks care about their sub-field and i learn something new every time!
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merve @merve.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The authors of ColPali trained a retrieval model based on SmolVLM 🤠 TLDR; - ColSmolVLM performs better than ColPali and DSE-Qwen2 on all English tasks - ColSmolVLM is more memory efficient than ColQwen2 💗 Find the model here huggingface.co/vidore/colsm...
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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I take no joy in admitting that the new Claude really does produce conversational outputs I would call insightful if a person said them
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Anka Reuel ➡️ NeurIPS @ankareuel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🚨 NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight Did you know we lack standards for AI benchmarks, despite their role in tracking progress, comparing models, and shaping policy? 🤯 Enter BetterBench–our framework with 46 criteria to assess benchmark quality: betterbench.stanford.edu 1/x
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 24/11/2024
New York and California ought to pass some voting reforms that include both rapid counting on par with Florida’s, but also compulsory voting. @kjephd.bsky.social had already persuaded me of the importance of the latter. The depressed blue state turnout this time around just highlighted it again.
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Robert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
📄👀: Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages www.nature.com/articles/s41...
posterior distributions for the word-initial parameter
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Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
A great list in general, but cuffed to be first! Thx, @jacobeisenstein.bsky.social !
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Jacob Eisenstein @jacobeisenstein.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
easy first #booksky #nlp
 foundations of statistical natural language processing
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Dan Roy @roydanroy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
By demand, I've created the final starter pack in my ML Personality Starter Pack Series. I'm uncertain who belongs in this starter pack and so if you think you better fit in the Grumpy ML or Unreasonably Upbeat ML starter packs, let me know. (Self) nominations welcome go.bsky.app/5Suyk58
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Peng Qi @qi2peng2.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
#EMNLP2024 was a fun time to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones! Reflecting on the conference program and in-person discussions, I believe we're seeing the "Google Moment" to #IR research play out in #NLProc. 1/n
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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It's a bit strange to me how passively users are discussed and modeled in misinformation research. As in, yes, there are various contexts under which an information ecosystem is imposed upon you but, in most cases, people make pretty conscious *choices* on what to consume & how..
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