[HN Gopher] Show HN: Semantic Search on AWS Docs
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       Show HN: Semantic Search on AWS Docs
        
       Author : antti909
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2023-04-11 19:49 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | nextworddev wrote:
       | Couple observations: 1) Uses AWS OpenSearch and not any of the
       | more popular VectorDBs du jour (Pinecone, Weviate, Milvus, etc).
       | Never used OpenSearch for ANN. 2) Obviously doesn't support
       | OpenAI or Cohere embedding algos - understandably they want to
       | promote the OSS / HuggingFace 3) The best AWS doc search has been
       | actually ChatGPT (GPT4) specifically, even with the knowledge
       | cutoff.
        
         | PaulHoule wrote:
         | I think their strategy is to use a cheap search algorithm to
         | reduce candidate results and use a more expensive network to
         | filter those results. The head end search could be replaced by
         | an embedding-based search with a vector based search engine but
         | it may work well with the conventional search engine.
        
           | gymbeaux wrote:
           | I think their strategy is to promote and sell their
           | proprietary *aaS solutions
        
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       | mdaniel wrote:
       | I can appreciate they want folks to deploy more AWS resources,
       | but without a demo it's hard to know if it's worth the energy
       | 
       | And by demo, I mean they actually ingested the _AWS
       | documentation_ so it is in their best interest to wire this up to
       | docs-staging.aws.amazon.com or some such, with any necessary
       | "this is not supported, it may go away at any time". They're
       | playing with house money, after all
        
       | simlevesque wrote:
       | Why does it use Terraform instead of CDK ?
        
       | thefourthchime wrote:
       | Can't normal ChatGPT do most of this already?
        
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