When natural language feels unnatural

Issue 272: Exploring our existential moment of Chat vs. Non-Chat

Natural language processing has been part of computing for decades. The research lineage goes back to ELIZA, SHRDLU, and statistical machine translation labs long before deep learning. But the moment natural language became a _consumer_ interface—the moment it felt like something the general public could hold in their hand—was the release of ChatGPT in …