Embedding

/ɛmˈbɛdɪŋ/ noun

Definition

The act of placing something firmly within or inside something else; or in mathematics and computing, representing data as vectors in a high-dimensional space.

Etymology

From 'embed' with the '-ing' suffix, which creates both gerunds (nouns from verbs) and present participles.

Kelly Says

In AI and machine learning, 'embeddings' are revolutionary—they allow computers to understand words like 'king' and 'queen' as points in space where similar words cluster together, which is how ChatGPT understands language relationships.

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