Understanding semantic search
A semantic search matches a search term or query words with semantically similar documents containing any amount of text. A simple keyword search might just look for words in the query that match words in the documents. However, a semantic search goes way beyond that. It looks at the meaning of words and ranks the documents with the highest-ranking document representing the document that is most semantically similar to the query. For example, suppose we have the query an animal with wings and five one-word documents: dog, cat, snake, rabbit, eagle. A semantic search would rank each of the five documents and assign the highest rank to the document containing the word eagle because it is most semantically similar to the query.
Every time you query Google, you're using semantic search and like Google, GPT 3 can also search over documents. However, rather than searching documents on the web, the documents are provided as part of the request to the...