Embeddings as the next unique identifier: from IP addresses to every word in context
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-10
Investor Stewart Alsop III offers a computing-history observation from building apps: computers' core trick is giving every tiny piece of data a unique identifier—first spreadsheet rows, then IP addresses, then DNS names.
LLMs' embeddings are the next leap: every single word now has a unique identifier—one that captures the word in the context of every other word in every language. He adds: "no, this doesn't automatically lead to all of our deaths, that is such a wild and unfounded jump."
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