โ€œThe future is agentsโ€: Building a platform for RAG agents
โ€œThe future is agentsโ€: Building a platform for RAG agents

โ€œThe future is agentsโ€: Building a platform for RAG agents

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[01:48] Douwe Kiela's Academic Journey

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[03:14] Origins of Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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[05:44] Hallucinations Versus Mistakes

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[07:22] Optimizing RAG Components

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[09:12] The Agent Paradigm and Personalization

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[11:16] Improving Enterprise Re-Ranking

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[12:55] Model Purpose Influences Hallucination

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[14:45] Chain-of-Thought and Errors

๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜†'๐˜€ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

I just finished listening to this podcast:

๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜ Stack Overflow Podcast with Douwe Kiela - ๐—˜๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ: "The future is agents"

๐——๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ: June 3, 2025

๐—ž๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—ง๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜†

RAG systems need specialized, purpose-built models rather than general-purpose LLMs to effectively reduce hallucinations and deliver accurate results.

๐—ช๐—ต๐˜† ๐—œ๐˜ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€:

As enterprises rush to implement AI solutions, understanding the distinction between general vs. specialized models is crucial for building reliable systems that can handle real-world, noisy data without making things up.

๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐Ÿง 

This challenges the common approach of using ChatGPT-style models for everything. We need to rethink how we build AI systems - sometimes less capability (but more specialization) is actually better for real-world applications.

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