3 AI startups revolutionizing NLP

Natural language processing (NLP) has been a long-standing dream of computer scientists that dates back to the days of ELIZA and even to the fundamental foundations of computing itself (Turing Test, anybody?). NLP has undergone a dramatic revolution in the past few years, with the statistical methods of the past giving way to approaches based on deep learning, or neural networks. Applying deep learning to NLP has led to massive, sophisticated, general purpose language models, like GPT-3, capable of generating text that is truly indistinguishable from human writing. GPT-3, for example, unlocks features such as those found in Microsoft's new "no-code" Power Apps platform, where you can enter a natural language description of a query, and the back end will generate the code (a Power Fx expression based on Excel syntax). NLP has vast potential across the enterprise, and it's not just the giants like Google or Microsoft that are bringing products to the table.