Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe #smallhead 23rd October 2023 Embeddings are a really neat trick that often come wrapped in a pile of intimidating jargon. If you can make it through that jargon, they unlock powerful and exciting techniques that can be applied to all sorts of interesting problems. I gave a talk about embeddings at PyBay 2023 . This article represents an improved version of that talk, which should stand alone even without watching the video. If you’re not yet familiar with embeddings I hope to give you everything you need to get started applying them to real-world problems. In this article: The 38 minute video version What are embeddings? Related content using embeddings Exploring how these things work with Word2Vec Calculating embeddings using my LLM tool Vibes-based search Embeddings for code using Symbex Embedding text and images together using CLIP...