Ease into similarity search with Google’s PaLM API

In previous articles we used Google’s PaLM API to generate a blog post and build a chatbot. In this article, we will explore how to generate text embeddings and perform semantic searches using the PaLM API. The PaLM API makes Google’s PaLM 2 large language model available to developers through the Google Cloud Vertex AI platform.

Unlike typical queries based on a string pattern or regular expressions, semantic search retrieves text with similar meanings. This is useful in …