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For an article extolling the benefits of embeddings for developers looking to dip their toe into the waters of AI it's odd they don't actually have an intro to embeddings or to vector databases. They just assume the reader already knows these concepts and dives on in to how they use them.

Sure many do know these concepts already but they're probably not the people wondering about a 'good starting point for the AI curious app developer'.




I published this pretty comprehensive intro to embeddings last year: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/23/embeddings/


I found many of your other posts and they were the spark that finally made me "get it" and look deeper into LLMs. This post looks like another slam dunk.

Keep up the good work!


To add to the other recommendations, here's a primer on vector DB's: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vector-database/


Apologies!

Here's a good primer on embeddings from openai: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings




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