Understanding modern AI is understanding embeddings
For years I’ve wanted to write the “perfect” article on embeddings, to give anyone with enough maths to write simple Excel formulas a deep and intuitive understanding of what embeddings are, given that they’re the absolute cornerstone of a lot of what we currently call AI.
Anyway, I wrote something I’m happy with, and it’s on my blog (which you signed up to get updates for). Please enjoy:
Understanding Modern AI is Understanding Embeddings: A Guide for Non-Programmers (with lots of dogs!)
Embeddings are a core AI concept that underpin a great deal of what we today think of as being AI. This article is going to give you an accurate and intuitive understanding of what an “embedding” is in less time than it takes to eat a (very large) bagel, and possibly make you think they’re as cool as I think they are. It even explains how we got to embeddings as a solution, by looking at everything else we tried along the way. If you’re comfortable with even very simple Excel formulas, you’ll understand all the maths, and there’s even a cute graph with dogs on it.
(keep reading here: https://sgnt.ai/p/embeddings-explainer/)
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