Do you know what artificial intelligence (AI) is? AI is a fancy term for machines or computers that can pretend to act like a human brain. They can think, learn, and even change their actions. Imagine a robot that suddenly becomes a pro at all your video games. That’s artificial intelligence!
Machine Learning, a type of artificial intelligence where computers learn from examples, is now being used by many businesses. Let’s consider a bookstore. If they notice that you love adventure books, they’ll recommend more of those to you. That’s machine learning. In other words, the computer ‘learns’ from your choice and makes future suggestions based on it.
But, we want to focus on a specific area of AI, which is Natural Language Processing (NLP). So, what is NLP? Imagine you’re talking to your phone, telling it to send a text message, and it does. That’s NLP! It’s how computers understand and react to human speech. These are also the computer programs that can write essays, stories, or even entire books!
But let’s explain NLP a bit more, and there’s a really cool way to do this. Have you ever put a sentence into a translation program, and the result didn’t make sense? That’s because language goes beyond just words. It involves understanding the full context. The AI catches the words but misses the context.
And here’s where things get exciting. There’s an advanced type of NLP, known as BERT (which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers). It’s a computer program that can better understand the context. If the standard NLP is like a teenager, then BERT is like a grown-up. It gets the full picture!
One amazing thing about BERT is that it can understand a sentence from both the beginning and the end. Imagine reading a book, not only from the first page to the last but also the other way around, from the last page to the first – and still fully understanding it. That’s what BERT does!
But why does this matter? It matters because businesses can use BERT to improve how they interact with customers. For example, online searching can be improved. Let’s say you search for “how to make a chocolate cake?” BERT can help you find a recipe, but it can also understand that you may want to learn more about baking and suggest helpful cooking techniques!
BERT is an exciting new step in the world of artificial intelligence. It helps computers understand human language much better. So, next time you ask Siri to send a text or Alexa to play your favorite song, remember that there’s a ton of high-tech computer thinking helping make that happen!
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