NLP Blockchain Harnesses Humans, Not Text
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | NLP Blockchain Harnesses Humans, Not Text |
| Author(s) | David de Hilster |
| Published in | NLU Global |
| Date | 2025-06-16 |
| Subject area | Artificial Intelligence |
| Topics | NLP++, blockchain, natural language processing |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"NLP Blockchain Harnesses Humans, Not Text" is an article by David de Hilster published on 16 June 2025 on NLU Global.
It announces a Northeastern University project, beginning at the Miami campus in autumn 2025, that combines blockchain with NLP++ to build natural language processing from human contribution rather than server farms. In place of centralised statistical models, the scheme rewards hand-crafted dictionaries and algorithms through a native token. De Hilster's framing is blunt: that for decades the field has been fooling itself that statistical systems amount to artificial intelligence.