The path to Knowledge could be out of Digression!

 Many of you must have heard of AI or Artificial intelligence and the term ML or Machine Learning which is related to the development of Artificial Intelligence and few other terms like NLP, NER, Deep Learning, Data Science, BIG DATA, Et al

In my quest to touch base on these pointers and with an intent to revisit my knowledge and catch upon this trend which had disrupted the tech industry since a decade now (as of July 2021)... I decided to test my awareness and sought to google... verifying it's related terms.

I started from double checking the popular term "NLP" which with a faint recall had thought it to be Natural Language Programming only to know that its not what I was thinking and its full form actually reads - Natural Language Processing.... and this rectification and correction triggered in to revisiting the entire spectrum of terminologies related to AI - Artificial Intelligence.

There was one article explaining the difficulties and challenges of Natural Language Programming which had a term POS Tagging which said that
Part-of-speech tagging is harder than just having a list of words and their parts of speech, because some words can represent more than one part of speech at different times, and because some parts of speech are complex or unspoken. This is not rare—in natural languages (as opposed to many artificial languages)

As I started reading more about NLP I rapidly moved forward to many articles from NLP to NER to an article explaining NER (Named Entity Recognition) to multiple terms explaining NER to POS Tagging - to - POS Tagging Wiki - to - Artificial languages - to - Constructed Language Wiki - To the image Next to this Wiki - To -Tower of Babel Wiki - To a plethora of new words and/or Terminologies (New - being a relative term is obviously referring to me and my limited ken)

As I started reading this article - Tower of Babel (and this is where the digression started) I was struck with awe realizing as to how much deep and vast all this really is and how little do we actually know about the world, about mankind, its history and all its concepts in general... given that I had been reading Wikipedia right from its inception during the year 2005 - 2006

Mentioning few terms know and unknown from the article - Tower of Babel:

Hebrew - Religion of Jesus Christ as a child before his enlightenment
Genesis - The Book of Genesis is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.
Origin Myth - An origin myth is a myth that purports to describe the origin of some feature of the natural or social world.
Great Flood - Genesis flood narrative - The flood of Noah and companions
Shinar - is the southern region of Mesopotamia in the Hebrew Bible.
Ziggurat - pyramidal stepped temple tower that is an architectural and religious structure characteristic of the major cities of Mesopotamia (now mainly in Iraq)
Babylon - Babylon was the capital city of the ancient Babylonian empire.
Sumerian - Sumer is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq)
Marduk - was a God from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon.

And If I would continue further this article could go endless.... which is when I realized that I had gone through more then Ten to Fifteen odd tabs of Wiki articles to cite the shortest explanations of most of the newly learned terms...

Started with Artificial Intelligence and landed up in Mesopotamia!

Sometimes digressing from the primary topic could also land us up into a whole new world of unchartered knowledge.