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Understand how AI converts everything—songs, movies, people—into lists of numbers to find patterns
Part of How Netflix, Spotify, TikTok Know You
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When you play "Dynamite" by BTS, Spotify doesn't hear the song. It sees:
[0.71, 0.58, 0.39, 0.87, 0.44, 0.91...]
A list of 100+ numbers. That's it.
To AI, this list of numbers IS the song. Every beat, every vocal run, every synth—converted to math. This representation is called a vector, and it's how AI sees literally everything: songs, movies, YOU.
Test your understanding with this quiz.
You search Spotify for 'chill study beats' but you've never used those exact words before. How does it find matching songs?
Complete this exercise and get AI-powered feedback.
Now that you understand how AI converts everything into numbers, try it yourself.
Think about: What makes things similar or different in areas you care about? What characteristics actually matter for finding good matches?
This reveals: Both the power of vectors (comparing anything mathematically) and their limitations (some things resist quantification).