Natural language processing
The field of getting computers to understand and produce human language: translation, summarizing, sentiment, search, speech. LLMs are its current state of the art. Abbreviated NLP.
“Before LLMs, our NLP setup could tag topics but couldn't write a reply.”
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In the history of AI
Part of the Extended list
Natural language processing is on the Extended list: builder jargon, industry terms, and newer slang for when you want to go further. It entered common use around 1960.