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Meet AI’s multitool: Vector embeddings | Google Cloud Blog

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Vector embeddings are one of machine learning’s most useful, least understood tools. Here’s what they’re good for.

Developers & Practitioners Meet AI’s multitool: Vector embeddings March 23, 2022 Dale Markowitz Applied AI Engineer Embeddings are one of the most versatile techniques in machine learning, and a critical tool every ML engineer should have in their toolbelt. It’s a shame, then, that so few of us understand what they are and what they’re good for! The problem, perhaps, is that embeddings sound slightly abstract and esoteric: In machine learning, an embedding is a way of representing data as points in n-dimensional space so that similar data points cluster together. Sound boring and unimpressive?

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