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NLP

Natural Language Processing.

Definition

Natural Language Processing. The AI field covering all things language — understanding, generating, translating, summarizing text. Before transformers, NLP relied on techniques like TF-IDF, word2vec, and LSTMs. Now, large language models handle most NLP tasks with a single architecture.

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Natural Language Processing

The field of AI focused on enabling computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language.

Language Model

An AI model that understands and generates human language.

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The neural network architecture behind virtually all modern AI language models.

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A mathematical function applied to a neuron's output that introduces non-linearity into the network.

Adam Optimizer

An optimization algorithm that combines the best parts of two other methods — AdaGrad and RMSProp.

AGI

Artificial General Intelligence.

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