Definition
Plain language
The field of getting computers to work with human language — reading it, writing it, answering questions about it.
As stated in the literature
Natural Language Processing — the area of AI concerned with the computational handling of text and speech; the discipline out of which large language models and techniques like embeddings emerged.
Also called: natural language processing
Why it matters: It matters because it's the field that made computers able to read and write human language, giving rise to today's language models.
For example, NLP is what lets a phone transcribe your voice memo and a search engine understand a typed question.
Heard on the show
“NLP used to be hand-crafted pipelines.”Episode 060 — When Splitting One Model Across Three Agents Doubles Its Accuracy