Vectors: The Way Computers See Your Data

Your model does not see images. It does not see text. It does not see customer records or product descriptions or audio waveforms. It sees none of those things the way you see them. Everything that goes into an AI model gets converted into numbers first. Always. Without exception. A 256x256 image becomes 196,608 numbers. A sentence becomes hundreds of numbers. A customer's purchase history becomes a list of numbers. The container that holds those numbers is called a vector. The Simplest Definition A vector is a list of numbers. That's it. Start there.