Shah: Replacing keyword search with vector embeddings is a massive AI opportunity
Dharmesh Shah · Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438) · Mar 30, 2023 · at 33:37
HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah explains the commercial opportunities of vector embeddings and semantic search on My First Million.
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“One of the biggest opportunities in AI right now is to do what Pandora did. Okay. Is there an industry where right now we're doing really stupid keyword based matching somehow it was very, very crude. If I can take that same dataset and convert it to vector embeddings and allow people to find things in a different way than they've ever been able to do before. So it's like Google search, super, super smart, not just keyword based, but for everything else.”
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