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The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Conference is one of the most prestigious international conferences in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and is an important platform to see the latest trends in NLP research every year. At ACL 2024, held this year in Bangkok, Thailand, one of the biggest topics of discussion was large language models (LLMs). More than 319 of the 943 main conference papers presented at the conference were related to LLMs, which shows how active LLM research is as a field. The three main keynote sessions also centered on LLMs, addressing the current capabilities, limitations, and reliability of the models. For example, the session “Can LLMs Reason and Plan?” expressed caution against viewing LLMs as a tool that can solve every problem. The presenter pointed out the limitations of current LLM inference capabilities and suggested utilizing LLM with additional resources or validation. The “Are LLMs Narrowing Our Horizon? Let’s Embrace Variation in NLP!” session discussed faithfulness issues as LLMs develop and the various methodologies proposed to address them. …