Cupcake or Wedding Cake?
Cupcake or Wedding Cake? Imagine being responsible for picking up dessert for your three-year-old’s birthday party. Now imagine showing up, surrounded by Bluey balloons, happy children, and someone in a Bingo costume, holding a three-tiered wedding cake. Or even worse, imagine showing up to a formal wedding with a tray of Bluey cupcakes! Both the wedding cake and the cupcakes are delicious, but neither would really be appropriate for the occasion. Natural language processing, as a field, is just like cake. Just as there are cupcakes, sheet cakes, sculpted cakes, and extravagant wedding cakes, there are simple bag of words solutions, discriminative NLP solutions, and Large Language models…and each solves a specific [...]