You've probably heard of vector databases. And you've probably been sold the lie that they are a "database." Well, I'm here to clear up any misconceptions about what these tools are. Vector databases provide the ability to do work with unstructured data. Data such as text, images, and videos, which we previously could not quantitatively compare, can now be compared and analyzed via vector embeddings. In this talk we cover:

• Why should you care about vector "databases?"
• How do these tools really work?
• What can you do with vector search?