2022 NLU: Year in Review

Was 2022 the year AGI became evident, with Google’s LaMDA being a sentient machine — or was it a year of increasing hype and desperation due to ongoing failures to demonstrate useful progress in AI?

As 2022 draws to a close, let’s consider the progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) — and in particular, a fundamental component of AI called Natural Language Understanding (NLU), or machine reading comprehension. A few…