AI Glossary term

Embedding

A list of numbers representing a piece of text, image or audio, arranged so similar things sit close together.

Also called: vector, embeddings

A list of numbers representing a piece of text, image or audio, arranged so similar things sit close together.

Why it mattersThe trick behind semantic search - it finds meaning, not keyword matches.

See also Vector Database, Semantic Search

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