AI Study Series Part 10: Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of AI that enables computers to interpret, understand, and generate human language. It powers chatbots, search engines, voice assistants, translators, and much more.

What You Will Learn

• Understanding syntax, semantics, and linguistic structures
• How machines tokenize, parse, and comprehend language
• Training large language models (LLMs) such as BERT and GPT
• Applications in summarization, translation, Q&A, sentiment analysis

Top Learning Resources

• Fast.ai NLP Course
• Harvard CS50 AI – NLP Module
• Hugging Face: NLP Course
• Coursera: NLP Specializations
• MIT NLP Lecture Series

Explore NLP in Action

• Chatbots like Ada and ChatGPT
• Voice interfaces such as Google Assistant and Siri
• Machine translation (Google Translate, DeepL)
• Search engines using semantic search (e.g., Google BERT update)

Video Tutorials & Talks

• TED: What Happens When AI Interprets Language?
• Vimeo: NLP Demos & Courses
• Odysee: Open NLP Education

Next Up

In Part 11: AI and Computer Vision, we will explore how machines see and interpret the world through image and video data.