All labsStart: Place a word
Words as arrows
Turn words into arrows, find which ones mean alike, work out king − man + woman, build your own analogy, and count the company a word keeps until its numbers fall out.
Briefing
A computer cannot compare two words, only two lists of numbers. Your job is to give words numbers that make sense: you place them on a map, find which ones point the same way, and do arithmetic with meanings until king − man + woman lands on queen.
You'll learn to
- Read a word's numbers as its position on a map
- Tell which words are alike by the angle between their arrows, not the distance
- Carry a relationship from one word to another with a − b + c
- Build a word's numbers by counting the words around it
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Before words become arrowsOptional warm-upWords as numbers, arrows that point the same way, subtracting arrows, and analogies in plain words. Ten minutes.Closest in meaning
Alike means pointing the same way
King − man + woman
A relationship is a difference
Your own analogy
Carry a relationship to a new word
Known by its company
Where the numbers come from
How real models do it
Hundreds of numbers, learned from billions of words