Numerical Representation

In short

Everything must be converted to numbers for computers to process it. And everything can be.

Think of it like translating every language into one universal language that the computer speaks — numbers.

Computers only understand numbers. So whether we’re dealing with text, images, audio, or anything else, it all has to be converted into a numerical format before a Model can work with it. This is why the field of AI can be applied to virtually anything — if you can represent it as numbers, you can train a model on it. Later on, Embeddings take this idea further by capturing meaning in those numbers, not just raw values.

Related

• Model - models only process numbers
• Tokens - how text gets turned into numbers for LLMs
• Embeddings - meaningful numerical representations