From the course: Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Thinking Machines

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Natural language processing

Natural language processing

- Communication cuts to the very heart of who we are as human beings. It's the language that we share that helps us understand larger concepts such as community, law, and justice. As human beings we're always trying to do a better job communicating. So it's not much of a surprise that we want our machines to do the same thing. In many ways, machines do a much better job communicating with each other than us as human beings. It's pretty easy to have two machines communicate. There might be an occasional packet loss here and there, but when you send an email it usually arrives in its original form. Human beings, on the other hand, are always struggling to reach greater understanding. If you can deliver 5 or 10% of what you're intending, then you're a great communicator. The main challenge is that we can't communicate with machines in the same way that they communicate with each other. We're not like Neo in The Matrix. We don't have an uplink port that will allow us to connect directly…

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