I’m late to the party; I just learned about embeddings. I’ve been playing with lexvec this week. I feel like I’ve found a book of working magic spells.
In 10 lines of code you can import a transformer and embed your phrase/word. Then you can do prediction or similarity search really easy. It's a superpower, true.
It's certainly a fast moving space. It's not perfect but the NLP scene has made huge strides the last couple years.