Databases in the AI Trenches

Artificial intelligence use has exploded, with much anticipation about its future. This talk explores many of the advances that has fueled this explosion, including multi-dimensional vectors, text embeddings, semantic/vector search, transformers, generative AI, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (rag). The talk includes semantic/vector search and rag examples. It finally covers how the valuable data stored in databases can be used to enhance AI usage.