Databases in the AI Trenches| POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025

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Video of a conference talk detailing how artificial intelligence use has exploded, with much anticipation about its future. This talk explores many of the advances that have 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.

Bruce Momjian is co-founder and core team member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group and has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996. He has been employed by EDB since 2006. He has spoken at many international open-source conferences and is the author of PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, published by Addison-Wesley. Prior to his involvement with PostgreSQL, Bruce worked as a consultant, developing custom database applications for some of the world’s largest law firms. As an academic, Bruce holds a Master’s in Education, an honorary doctorate, was a high school computer science teacher, and lectures internationally.

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00:00 Introduction
01:52 Outline
03:20 AI explosion
06:43 Hyper-dimensional vectors
08:14 Training text embedding
11:46 Semantic/vector searc
16:21 Transformers
17:55 Generative AI
18:42 Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
21:18 Deployment options
23:03 Conclusion

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