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Understanding Word and Sentence Embeddings

• Large language models (LLMs) are able to understand and produce human language in a way that makes it almost impossible for a human to tell if they are talking to another human or to a computer.
• Word embeddings are an assignment of scores to words, with the aim of turning words and sentences into numbers in a coherent way.
• A good word embedding should have properties such as words that are similar should correspond to points that are close by, and words that are different should correspond to points that are far away.
• Word embeddings are able to capture not only word similarity but can also capture other properties of the language, such as age and size.
• Sentence embeddings are just like word embeddings, but they associate every sentence with a vector full of numbers in a coherent way.
• Cohere embedding sends every sentence to a vector formed by 4096 numbers, using transformers, attention mechanisms, and other cutting edge algorithms.
• Sentence embeddings can be used for translation and for searching and understanding text in different languages.
• Most word and sentence embeddings are dependent on the language that the model is trained on.
• Cohere has trained a large multilingual model that can understand text in over 100 languages.
• Word and sentence embeddings are the bread and butter of LLMs, as they are the basic building block of most language models.
• Language embeddings are an extension of sentence embeddings, in which the numbers attached to each sentence are language-agnostic.
• Cohere dashboard provides a friendly interface to use embeddings.