Artificial Atlas

Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.

Christopher Manning

Christopher Manning

Researcher

Stanford professor and a founder of neural natural-language processing (GloVe, the Stanford NLP course). A long-standing voice for the view that language models learn meaning from text.

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Argues for

LLM scaling Language models do learn meaning from text, but their knowledge is incomplete and needs other senses and knowledge added; scale by itself is not his position.

Sources Human Language Understanding & Reasoning Daedalus 2022-04-13

Works in

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    Stanford University, Professor; director, Stanford AI Lab
    Sources Christopher D. Manning Wikipedia 2026-09-05