Pinecone Aims to Reduce AI Hallucinations with Vector Databases
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Pinecone's CEO believes generative AI programs like ChatGPT produce false information because they lack real knowledge; his company aims to ground AI outputs in more authoritative data.
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Pinecone specializes in vector databases which can help connect AI language models to relevant reference data to reduce hallucinations.
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Vector databases organize data based on semantic similarity so queries can retrieve information contextually related to the prompt.
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Pinecone argues other database systems attempts to add vector search don't work well at scale compared to a purpose-built vector database.
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The CEO believes representing knowledge in AI will require ongoing innovation in how vector databases integrate and represent data over the next 5-10 years.