NLP and LLMs Explained: A Beginner's Guide to AI Language Technology
Ever wondered how your phone understands when you ask it for tomorrow's weather forecast? Or how chatbots can have seemingly intelligent conversations with you? Behind these everyday technological marvels lie Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) - two powerful AI technologies that are transforming how we interact with machines. In this article, I'll walk you through what NLP and LLMs are, how they work, and their real-world applications - all without drowning you in technical jargon. As someone who's spent 15 years watching these technologies evolve from academic curiosities to world-changing tools, I'm excited to share this journey with you! 🚀 What is Natural Language Processing (NLP)? At its core, Natural Language Processing is about teaching computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language. Think about it - language is arguably humanity's greatest invention, but it's incredibly complex, ambiguous, and constan...