Christopher Manning
@chrmanning.bsky.social
Stanford Linguistics and Computer Science. Director, Stanford AI Lab. Founder of @stanfordnlp.bsky.social . #NLP https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/
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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
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
June 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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
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 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
@chrmanning.bsky.social @shikharmurty.bsky.social
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.
hai.stanford.edu
March 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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
@chrmanning.bsky.social @shikharmurty.bsky.social
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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...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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.
elifesciences.org
March 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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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?
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?
March 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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?
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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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?
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies
Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past
www.science.org
March 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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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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
- 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
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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
- 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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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.
Just a bottomless pit of economic self owns.
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.
www.foxnews.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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.
Just a bottomless pit of economic self owns.
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...
moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/03/14/e...
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.
moderndiplomacy.eu
March 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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...
moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/03/14/e...
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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.
March 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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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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
Video: youtu.be/5Aer7MUSuSU
March 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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
Video: youtu.be/5Aer7MUSuSU
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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.
March 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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.
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!
It’s super to see this becoming reality with neural LLMs!
AI Overviews are getting a Gemini 2.0 upgrade and expanding to more people. Plus, we’re introducing a new experimental AI Mode. Learn more here: blog.google/products/sea...
Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode
AI Mode is a new generative AI experiment in Google Search.
blog.google
March 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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!
It’s super to see this becoming reality with neural LLMs!
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!
🔮 Nevertheless, the talk was quite prophetic!
March 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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!
🔮 Nevertheless, the talk was quite prophetic!
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...
news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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...
news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
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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
@chrmanning.bsky.social @jlanday.bsky.social @yejinchoinka.bsky.social @amyzegart.bsky.social
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.
hai.stanford.edu
February 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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
@chrmanning.bsky.social @jlanday.bsky.social @yejinchoinka.bsky.social @amyzegart.bsky.social
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.
We’re not in the twentieth century any more. The twenty-first century is almost a quarter done.
February 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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.
We’re not in the twentieth century any more. The twenty-first century is almost a quarter done.
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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...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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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
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
February 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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
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
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...
“Many Chinese students are not that interested in full-time jobs in the US.”
restofworld.org/2025/china-a...
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.
restofworld.org
February 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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...
“Many Chinese students are not that interested in full-time jobs in the US.”
restofworld.org/2025/china-a...
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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.
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.
November 27, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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.
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.
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” A good historical perspective:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...
History Repeating
liberalarts.vt.edu
January 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” A good historical perspective:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...
January 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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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.
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.
January 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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.
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.
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 …
“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 …
December 27, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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 …
“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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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...
o3 is probably a more principled search technique...
Getting 50% (SoTA) on ARC-AGI with GPT-4o
You can just draw more samples
redwoodresearch.substack.com
December 21, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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...
o3 is probably a more principled search technique...