When our ancestors came up with tools and techniques to cultivate the earth, humanity experienced an Agricultural Revolution. When Watt invented the steam engine, he laid the ground for the Industrial Revolution. When personal computers and smart-phones became a part of our everyday life, the Digital Age began. Society has experienced continuous change due to…
Back in 1926 Tesla envisioned something that sounded suspiciously similar to what we today call the Internet of Things (IoT). To him, the ability of devices to transmit wirelessly would naturally lead to an interconnected world of instruments, a technological brain present in our mere pockets.
Regardless of whether you call it an evolution from classical Digital Age to the economy of complexity, a jump from the traditional 3rd technological platform to the prophesied 4th technological and social platform, or an industrial revolution, digital transformation is here.
When Alan Turing coined the Turing test in his paper “Computing machinery and intelligence”, which laid the foundations of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, he was confronted with the following question: “Do machines think?”
The story of Natural Language Processing (NLP) starts way before Siri uttered its first words. Its roots can be traced back to the early realization that giving computers the ability to understand natural language, a task that a 2-year old can solve, is actually tougher than it sounds.
