# Embeddings: What they are and why they matter

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## What Jamie wrote

Good overview from Willison introducing Embeddings and going into some detail on how to use them.

> Embeddings are a technology that’s adjacent to the wider field of Large Language Models—the technology behind ChatGPT and Bard and Claude.
> 
> Embeddings are based around one trick: take a piece of content—in this case a blog entry—and turn that piece of content into an array of floating point numbers.

He goes through a couple of examples and gives command line information so you can follow along.

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