# Semantic quick search gives error 500

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/semantic-quick-search-gives-error-500/302545
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** ai, ai-search
**Created:** [April 5, 2024, 6:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/semantic-quick-search-gives-error-500/302545 "2024-04-05T06:41:14Z")
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### Author: ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 6:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/semantic-quick-search-gives-error-500/302545/1 "2024-04-05T06:41:14Z")

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I enabled `ai embeddings semantic quick search enabled` but it gives error 500. It works here, and error 500 quite often happends because of issues of servers, aka. at my end, but I’m a bit lost how to start solving out this.

I upgraded a couple days ago, but it hasn’t work ever. Sementic suggestions works just nice when searched as usual.

Used model is GPT-4 Turbo, and embeddings model is text-embedding-3-small — if that matters. I used large at some point, but changed it to small, because I didn’t get wanted results, and at that point OpenAI has some issues with large-model.

Safe-mode doesn’t help.

And error I get:

```plaintext
Message

Failed to process hijacked response correctly : ArgumentError : address cannot be nil or empty

Backtrace

/var/www/discourse/lib/final_destination/http.rb:5:in `connect'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/net-http-0.4.1/lib/net/http.rb:1580:in `do_start'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/net-http-0.4.1/lib/net/http.rb:1569:in `start'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/faraday-net_http-3.1.0/lib/faraday/adapter/net_http.rb:112:in `request_with_wrapped_block'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/faraday-net_http-3.1.0/lib/faraday/adapter/net_http.rb:102:in `perform_request'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/faraday-net_http-3.1.0/lib/faraday/adapter/net_http.rb:66:in `block in call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/faraday-2.9.0/lib/faraday/adapter.rb:45:in `connection'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/faraday-net_http-3.1.0/lib/faraday/adapter/net_http.rb:65:in `call'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/faraday-2.9.0/lib/faraday/rack_builder.rb:152:in `build_response'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/faraday-2.9.0/lib/faraday/connection.rb:444:in `run_request'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/faraday-2.9.0/lib/faraday/connection.rb:280:in `post'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-ai/lib/inference/hugging_face_text_embeddings.rb:50:in `rerank'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-ai/lib/embeddings/semantic_search.rb:136:in `quick_search'
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-ai/app/controllers/discourse_ai/embeddings/embeddings_controller.rb:62:in `block in quick_search'
/var/www/discourse/lib/hijack.rb:64:in `instance_eval'
/var/www/discourse/lib/hijack.rb:64:in `block in hijack'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/concurrent-ruby-1.2.3/lib/concurrent-ruby/concurrent/promises.rb:911:in `callback_on_resolution'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/concurrent-ruby-1.2.3/lib/concurrent-ruby/concurrent/promises.rb:797:in `call_callback'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/concurrent-ruby-1.2.3/lib/concurrent-ruby/concurrent/promises.rb:803:in `call_callbacks'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/concurrent-ruby-1.2.3/lib/concurrent-ruby/concurrent/promises.rb:692:in `resolve_with'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/concurrent-ruby-1.2.3/lib/concurrent-ruby/concurrent/promises.rb:1325:in `resolve'
/var/www/discourse/lib/scheduler/defer.rb:115:in `block in do_work'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rails_multisite-6.0.0/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management/null_instance.rb:49:in `with_connection'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rails_multisite-6.0.0/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb:21:in `with_connection'
/var/www/discourse/lib/scheduler/defer.rb:109:in `do_work'
/var/www/discourse/lib/scheduler/defer.rb:97:in `block (2 levels) in start_thread'

Env

HTTP HOSTS: foorumi.katiska.eu

```

Ideas?

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 12:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/semantic-quick-search-gives-error-500/302545/2 "2024-04-05T12:32:36Z")

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That’s an experimental feature that requires you to enable per post embeddings and to use a re-ranker model, which we are still evaluating the feasibility of.

I will move this setting to a hidden one so people don’t enable it by mistake.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/semantic-quick-search-gives-error-500/302545/3 "2024-05-05T12:33:33Z")

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