073 - What Is an Embedding?

Opublikowano: 2026-10-04

What exactly is an embedding, and why is it such an important building block in modern AI? This episode explains how text becomes a numerical vector, how comparing those vectors enables semantic search, and how the same idea powers retrieval augmented generation, recommendations, and multimodal retrieval. An embedding model turns a piece of text into a vector, a list of numbers that represents patterns in the input rather than individual words or a fixed dictionary of meanings. Related sentences end up with vectors that are mathematically close together, while unrelated ones...