157: From Search Engine to Answer Engine Using Grounded Generative AI, Featuring Amr Awadallah of Vectara

The Data Stack Show

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Amr’s extensive background in data (3:23)
• The evolution of neural networks (9:21)
• The role of supervised learning in AI (11:17)
• Explaining Vectara (13:07)
• Papers that laid the foundation for AI (15:02)
• Contextualized translation and personalization (20:07)
• Ease of use and answer-based search (25:01)
• AI and potential liabilities (35:54)
• Minimizing difficulties in large language models (36:43)
• The process of extracting documents in multidimensional space (44:47)
• Summarization process (46:33)
• The danger of humans misusing technology (54:59)
• Final thoughts and takeaways (57:12)

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