Douwe Kiela - Specialized RAG Agents: Lessons learned from deploying complex AI systems in production
Lessons learned from deploying complex RAG agents in production
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The latest generation of LLMs is demonstrating impressive test time reasoning capabilities. However, to be truly valuable in an enterprise setting requires those agentic capabilities to be applied to the right enterprise data. In all the excitement around AI agents, many of us have somehow forgotten the timeless adage “garbage in; garbage out” – language models can only do their job if they are contextualized properly. In this talk, Douwe Kiela will share lessons learned from deploying enterprise RAG systems at scale and how to design a system robust enough for the Fortune 500.
Douwe Kiela
Douwe Kiela is the CEO and Co-Founder of Contextual AI. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. Previously, he was the Head of Research at Hugging Face and a Research Lead at Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, where he pioneered Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) among other key AI breakthroughs. His work in multimodality, alignment, and evaluation has set new standards in the field of AI and has made systems safer, more reliable, and more accurate.
Douwe Kiela
Douwe Kiela is the CEO and Co-Founder of Contextual AI. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. Previously, he was the Head of Research at Hugging Face and a Research Lead at Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, where he pioneered Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) among other key AI breakthroughs. His work in multimodality, alignment, and evaluation has set new standards in the field of AI and has made systems safer, more reliable, and more accurate.
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