And yes, this is still GenAI. “Gen” doesn’t just mean “generating text”. It also relates to “understanding” (cough) the meaning of your prompt and having a search space where it can match your meaning with the meaning of other things. That’s where it starts to “generate” ideas. For vector databases, instead of generating words based on the meaning, it’s generating links based on the meaning.
fosstodon is the programming dot dev of mastodon and I mean that in every negative way you can imagine
your posts all give me slimy SEO vibes and you haven’t shown any upward trajectory since claiming that only generative AI lacks a separation between code and data (fucking what? seriously, think on this) so you’re getting trimmed
I just ended up throwing the name into a search engine (one of those boring old actually search engine things; how pedestrian of me)
I’m Curtis “Ovid” Poe. I’ve been building software for decades. Today I largely work with generative AI, Perl, Python, and Agile consulting. I regularly speak at conferences and corporate events across Europe and the US.
@zogwarg I’ve written up a quick explanation at https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Ovid/17b19faf2fb7e0019e375e97f0a4c8af/raw/196735daa5274ded8f2363a41d78a490e8325f67/vector.txt
And yes, this is still GenAI. “Gen” doesn’t just mean “generating text”. It also relates to “understanding” (cough) the meaning of your prompt and having a search space where it can match your meaning with the meaning of other things. That’s where it starts to “generate” ideas. For vector databases, instead of generating words based on the meaning, it’s generating links based on the meaning.
fosstodon is the programming dot dev of mastodon and I mean that in every negative way you can imagine
your posts all give me slimy SEO vibes and you haven’t shown any upward trajectory since claiming that only generative AI lacks a separation between code and data (fucking what? seriously, think on this) so you’re getting trimmed
I just ended up throwing the name into a search engine (one of those boring old actually search engine things; how pedestrian of me)
ah.
back when I used the wider fediverse more frequently I had fosstodon on mute for a significant amount of time
glad to know it’s still Like That