What Do NLP Researchers Believe? Results of the NLP Community Metasurvey

Abstract:
I will present the results of the NLP Community Metasurvey (nlpsurvey.net). This was a questionnaire that we ran from May to June 2022 which elicited the opinions of NLP researchers on controversial issues, including industry influence in the field, concerns about AGI, and ethics. Our results put concrete numbers to several controversies. For example, respondents are split almost exactly in half on questions about:
* the importance of artificial general intelligence,
* whether language models understand language, and
* …

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