155: The Future of Search with Saahil Jain

155: The Future of Search with Saahil Jain

When it comes to untangling the complexities of what lies ahead for search engines in this age of AI, few are as deeply versed in the subject as You.com Engineer Saahil Jain. Jason and Patrick talk with him in this episode about what search even is, what challenges lie ahead, and where the shift in paradigms can be found.

00:01:16 Introductions

00:02:06 How physics led Saahil to programming

00:07:20 Getting started at Microsoft

00:13:39 Analyzing human text input

00:22:22 The exciting paradigm shift in search

00:29:02 Rationales for direction

00:33:40 Image generation models

00:39:55 Knowledge bases

00:45:12 FIFA

00:49:29 Understanding the query’s intent

00:51:18 Expectations

00:55:38 A need to stay connected to authority repositories

01:03:45 About working at You

01:08:18 Farewells


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