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Vector databases (beyond the hype)

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM

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The Trade-Offs of Vector Databases for AI

Prashant: I'm both fascinated and frustrated by the current state of marketing in vector databases. When combined with LLM's, large language models like chat GPT, you could say any sort of language model layered on top of a vector database can be used to build some very, very interesting applications. One of those interesting applications is querying your data by a natural language. Rather than writing my query by hand or constructing the query being taken from the ground up, can I just talk in natural language and have the database kind of respond to that query as well? Prashant: It makes sense to talk about the use cases once we go through some of these key trade-offs

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