Semantic dot art is anti-slop. Instead of another prompt bar for generation, this is an art search engine that invites you to search with your imagination. Traditional search assumes a user translates their desire into a query well-matched for the hidden structure of the search engine. Modern Language Models (LLM agents) allow us to bridge from raw user expression to the universe of art.

In the last four years, our collective priors have shifted from associating words and emotion with imagery hanging in galleries to solutions to stochastic differential equations. Said differently, image generation models have taken over.

Retrieval systems have experienced a renaissance (sorry, couldn't resist) as of late: the resources harnessed to generate answers to a user's request, no matter how afield of expectation. We've seen a dramatic return to people's interest in keyword search, semantic search, hybrid techniques, and more. Renewed research in embeddings, and interaction models; excitement again about reranking and prefiltering – to say nothing of agents or graphs.