The Stack Overflow Podcast
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[01:48] Douwe Kiela's Academic Journey
[03:14] Origins of Retrieval-Augmented Generation
[05:44] Hallucinations Versus Mistakes
[07:22] Optimizing RAG Components
[09:12] The Agent Paradigm and Personalization
[11:16] Improving Enterprise Re-Ranking
[12:55] Model Purpose Influences Hallucination
[14:45] Chain-of-Thought and Errors
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๐ฃ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ Stack Overflow Podcast with Douwe Kiela - ๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ: "The future is agents"
๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ: June 3, 2025
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RAG systems need specialized, purpose-built models rather than general-purpose LLMs to effectively reduce hallucinations and deliver accurate results.
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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.
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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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