Luke Zettlemoyer

“Many people who later made comparatively large contributions in LLM and agent research actually came from semantic parsing backgrounds — like Percy Liang at Stanford, Luke Zettlemoyer at University of Washington...”

“Toolformer — that was the first work using LM to do tool use. That came from Meta. Luke Zettlemoyer... was one of the main leads. Although agents hadn't yet become a hot concept at the time, this work had already generated very large impact. When I was still part-time at Microsoft, this paper was circulated company-wide by Microsoft CTO Satya.”