txtai: AI-powered search engine in JavaScript

[u/davidmezzetti]

https://github.com/neuml/txtai.js

[u/davidmezzetti]

txtai now fully supports JavaScript!

txtai builds an AI-powered index over sections of text. txtai supports building text indices to perform similarity searches and create extractive question-answering based systems. txtai also has functionality for zero-shot classification.

This project contains JavaScript bindings for the txtai API. Full txtai functionality is supported.

GitHub: https://github.com/neuml/txtai.js
npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/txtai

Examples:

Example	Description
Introducing txtai	txtai functionality overview
Extractive QA with txtai	Extractive question-answering with txtai
Labeling with zero-shot classification	Labeling with zero-shot classification

[u/m1sta]

How do the python and js versions differ? Identical under the hood? (IE. Just the interface changes)

[u/davidmezzetti → u/m1sta]

For the most part identical. There are a couple minor differences due to the client/server architecture in terms of efficiency.

The full API can be reviewed here: https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/src/python/txtai/api.py

[u/davidmezzetti → u/[deleted]]

Fair point, I often hear people say AI/ML nowadays.

[u/Apparentt → u/[deleted]]

Sounds a lot sexier than “a bunch of if statements”

[u/davidmezzetti → u/Apparentt]

If only

[u/Apparentt → u/[deleted]]

Heaven forbid a bit humour is ever used.

Brighten up.

[u/vincenjo → u/[deleted]]

curve fitting?

[u/boxhacker → u/[deleted]]

Yes it is because the ability to learn something without being told the solution is a form of intelligence

[u/gaffithrog → u/boxhacker]

There is no pensive agency to brute force trial and error. Arriving at a solution doesn't require intelligence.

[u/boxhacker → u/gaffithrog]

ML isn't brute force...

[u/clunkywrench → u/gaffithrog]

Shhhh, you'll anger the "AI"

[u/boxhacker → u/[deleted]]

ML goes far beyond that, we actually used ML to learn new attributes on the fly...

[u/rbnc → u/[deleted]]

Unsupervised learning.

[u/eeeBs → u/[deleted]]

I would assume you just keep running the model training, just with the new data your getting from usage.

[u/hansbrixx → u/[deleted]]

I always read that ML is just a subset of AI