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.
Have you ever tried to watch a foreign movie in a language that you’ve recently learned without subtitles? Or conversed on the phone with someone that is eating at the same time? Speech recognition is a task where even humans face difficulties if the conditions are not ideal.
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.
