All we are is words...

Welcome to our first newsletter!! This (weekly) newsletter exists to track the progress of natural language understanding (NLU) first companies and the impacts / opportunities they are having / creating commercially and socially. How do we define NLU? Quick step back for overview...For some time now we've been trying to create a non-human entity...box...thing...machine that can hear us, understand us and speak back to us, in a manner that is indistinguishable from a human. This was the original framing of the Turing test. No humanoid like figure to go along with the hearing, understanding and talking.