The Language Revolution
Human language is perhaps the most complex and nuanced form of communication on Earth. Unlike the structured world of mathematics or the predictable patterns of images, language is creative, contextual, and constantly evolving. Yet in recent years, AI systems have achieved remarkable success in understanding and generating text that seems almost human.
From the autocomplete on your phone to ChatGPT's conversational abilities, natural language processing has transformed from academic curiosity to everyday tool. These systems can translate between languages, summarize documents, answer questions, and even write creative content—all by learning patterns from massive amounts of human text.
In this chapter, we'll explore how computers transform words into mathematics, learn the meaning behind language, and develop the ability to generate coherent, helpful text. You'll discover how simple statistical techniques evolved into the sophisticated language models that power modern conversational AI, and why predicting the next word turned out to be the key to understanding language itself.
A lot of inspiration and images where taken from this NLP Course, check it out!