If one term has captured the popular imagination of late, it’s artificial intelligence (AI). Depending on whom you ask, it’s either the panacea for humanity’s woes, or a harbinger of the end times. And yet, how many of us can truly say that we understand AI? Can either the optimists or the pessimists actually justify their positions? What does the AI future actually look like?

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Natural language processing is a complex and evolving field. Part computer science, part linguistics, part statistics--it can be a challenge deciding where to begin. One starting place is to look at the most influential papers in academic literature--if you can master these papers, then you'll be well on the path to becoming an NLP expert.

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