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English: This image refers to Natural Language Processing, known as NLP, a sub-field of AI enabling computers to understand language. Chatbots, voice assistants, automatic translation, text summarization, speech recognition and synthetic voices are applications that fall under NLP. To be able to communicate we need to have a common language. The symbols, letters and words are the connection between the human and the AI, using these we can communicate with each other. This forms the basis of language models (and wider machine learning), embedded within statistical processes of pattern recognition. Words are placed, as in this image, within a symbolic taxonomy. The letter is a part of a word, which is a part of a sentence, which is a part of a context, which creates meaning. Yet these systems have no real understanding. The illusion of understanding emerges from the pattern they have learned. The single letter 'A', missing its counterpart 'I' could represent the actual lack of intelligence in these systems. The image was generated by applying a neural network-based technique called 'style transfer' using the mobile app Prisma.