How Can Machine Learning Help Computers Understand Us? - OpenMind

Since the Enigma code was cracked using computers, humans have been forced to talk to machines in a way the latter could understand. Several languages were created, from assembler to Fortran, C, C, Java, Perl and Ruby, to name just a few. Most of these contained English keywords, but the syntax was still rigid and required high-level programming knowledge. What if you could talk to any computer or smart device in natural language and have it understand you? This is the bet behind NLP (Natural Language Processing). Right now, it is still about translating language into something a machine can process, but as the system incorporates more AI and learns from interactions, it will become more independent.