Learning AI if You Suck at Math -- P7 -- The Magic of Natural Language Processing

After discovering the amazing power of convolutional neural networks for image recognition in part five of this series, I decided to dive head first into Natural language Processing or NLP. This hotbed of machine learning research teaches computers to understand how people talk. When you ask Siri or the Google Assistant a question, it's NLP that drives the conversation. Of course, as an author of novels and articles, working with language seemed like the obvious next step for me. I may suck at math but words are my domain! So I set out to uncover what insights NLP could give me about my own area of mastery. I had so many questions. Had NLP uncovered the hidden keys to writing heart-wrenching poems? Could AIs turn phrases better than the Bard? Luckily, I had just the right project in mind to test the limits of NLP. I was in the midst of naming the second book in my epic sci-fi saga The Jasmine Wars but I'd struggled to find the perfect title. What if I could feed a neural net with the greatest titles of all time and have it deliver a title for the ages? This isn't my first foray into computer assisted title generation. There are a number of random title generators out on the interwebs that I've tried from time to time. They're the type of toy you play with for a few minutes and then move on.