AI Magazine June 2021 | Page 16

TIMELINE

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING ( NLP )

Where we ’ re at in helping machines recognise , translate , and communicate with humans .

1950 1980s

The Turing Test
Alan Turing publishes “ Computing Machinery and Intelligence ,” in which he proposes that the true test of a machine ’ s intelligence is its ability to imitate human behavior . Man or machine ? By Turing ’ s logic , one shouldn ’ t be able to tell the difference .
Machine Learning
Up until this point , most NLP systems exist as convoluted , hand-written rules . But as computational power increases and Chomskyan linguistic theories fade in influence , NLP starts to rely on computing power .
16 June 2021