From 811544228d83f99f6d749dab2a9fe9da7e2c5151 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Meg528 <71841959+Meg528@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:13:45 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update 2-what-are-vector.mdx --- docs/7-vector-search/2-what-are-vector.mdx | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/7-vector-search/2-what-are-vector.mdx b/docs/7-vector-search/2-what-are-vector.mdx index 79d7c248..7469f8a7 100644 --- a/docs/7-vector-search/2-what-are-vector.mdx +++ b/docs/7-vector-search/2-what-are-vector.mdx @@ -14,15 +14,15 @@ Thanks to some of the latest advances in AI, we can now use vectors to represent Vectors can even be used to represent images, audio, and video, but we'll focus on text in this workshop. -## Why Do We Need Vectors? +## Why do we need vectors? Computers can't understand text. They can only understand numbers. So, we need a way to convert text into numbers. That's where vectors come in. -Using vectors, we can plot text in a multi-dimensional space. It is hard to visualize a multi-dimensional space, so let's start with a 2-dimensional space. +Using vectors, we can plot text in a multi-dimensional space. It is hard to visualize a multi-dimensional space, so let's start with a two-dimensional space. -Imagine a plot with a x and y axis. Our ML model will plot various points on this plot. This could represent words, sentences, paragraphs, documents, or even images. +Imagine a plot with an x and y axis. Our ML model will plot various points on this plot. This could represent words, sentences, paragraphs, documents, or even images. -The position where the points are plotted is determined by the model you used. The models converts the data you passed it into a vector. Then, it plots the vector on the chart. +The position where the points are plotted is determined by the model you used. The model converts the data you passed it into a vector. Then, it plots the vector on the chart. ![Points on a chart](/img/7-vector-search/1-vectors.png) @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ Vector search also provides a cosine algorithm. Using cosine distance, the close ![Closest words](/img/7-vector-search/4-cosine.png) -## How Do We Create Vectors? +## How do we create vectors? -The big breakthrough with GenAI is that developers can now easily use models that have been pre-trained, and made available freely online. These models have been trained on huge datasets, and are able to convert text (or any sort of data, really) into vectors. +The big breakthrough with GenAI is that developers can now easily use models that have been pre-trained and made available freely online. These models have been trained on huge datasets and are able to convert text (or any sort of data, really) into vectors. -There are many ways to create vectors. In this workshop, we'll use a pre-trained model and an API that will return vectors for us. \ No newline at end of file +There are many ways to create vectors. In this workshop, we'll use a pre-trained model and an API that will return vectors for us.