Embeddings: What They Are and Why They Matter

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/23/embeddings/
AI
Issue #368
29 Oct 2023
I am including this technical post because I believe a) we recruiters can handle it 🤣 and b) because it provides a just-about accessible outline for one of the most significant innovations that enables a great deal of the magic that comes out of GAI applications. Embeddings, is the conversion of information (text, image, whatever) into a set of coordinates in a hypothetical multi-dimensional space, thereby improving predictive power by proximity and clustering. Not the easiest digest, but give it go