Talk with YouTube without paying a cent - Francesco Saverio Zuppichini | Vector Space Talks

Francesco Saverio Zuppichini, a Senior Full Stack Machine Learning Engineer at Zurich Insurance, shares insights on creating a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system using YouTube videos without relying on paid services or frameworks. He emphasizes the importance of understanding underlying technologies by demonstrating how to use YouTube DL for subtitles, Hugging Face for embeddings, and Qdrant for vector storage and similarity searches, all managed locally for privacy and control. Zuppichini discusses his preference for using functions over classes for better code organization and the role of metadata in enhancing the functionality of Qdrant and RAGs. He also highlights the value of selecting easy-to-install software with robust documentation, sharing his criteria for tool selection based on ease of installation and community support. Throughout the talk, he underscores the importance of simplicity in coding and the potential pitfalls of over-relying on frameworks, advocating for a clear understanding of the components being used.