The AI area of Natural Language Processing, or NLP, throughout its gigantic language models — yes, GPT-3, I’m watching you — presents what it’s perceived as a revolution in machines’ capabilities to perform the most distinct language tasks.

Due to that, the perception of the public as a whole is split: some perceive that these new language models are going to pave the way to a Skynet type of technology, while others dismiss them as hype-fueled technologies that will live in dusty shelves, or HDD drives, in little to no time.

Motivated by this, this series of storiesapproaches NLP from scratch in a friendly way. Read More