NLP
Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
An AI's ability to read and comprehend, understanding the meaning, intent, and context behind human text.
Definition
The subfield of NLP focused on machine reading comprehension, extracting meaning, intent, entities, and relationships from text. Includes tasks like intent classification, entity recognition, and semantic parsing.
Why it matters
The foundation of every text-based AI application, if the system doesn't understand the input, nothing else works.
Related terms in NLP
BERT
Google's breakthrough AI model that reads sentences in both directions at once to understand context better.
Chain of Thought (CoT)
Asking an AI to "show its work" and think step-by-step, which makes it much better at solving math and logic problems.
Context Window
The maximum amount of text an AI can read and consider at one time, like how many pages of notes it can hold in its head.
Conversational AI
AI that can have natural back-and-forth conversations with humans, chatbots, voice assistants, and customer service bots.
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