A beginner’s guide to natural language processing and generation

This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. 20 years ago, if you had a database table containing your sales information and you wanted to pull up the ten most sold items in the past year, you would have to run a command that looked like this: SELECT TOP 10 SUM(sale_total) AS total_sales FROM sales WHERE sale_date > DATEADD(day, -365, GETDATE()) GROUP BY item_id Today, performing the same task can be as easy as writing the following query in a platform such as IBM Watson: Which 10…

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