# What is an embedding for AI?

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/what-is-an-embedding-for-ai/
- Published: 2022-06-02T10:00:14-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Image Credit: metamorworks/Getty Images. Article by Peter Wayner. Venture Beat – May 31, 2022. When a question is presented to an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, it must be converted into a format that the algorithm can understand. This is often called “embedding a problem,” to use the verb form of the word. Scientists also use the word as a noun and talk about an “embedding.” In most cases, the embeddings are collections of numbers. They are often arranged in a vector to simplify their representation. Sometimes […] Click here to view original web page at venturebeat.com