AgentIR with Zijian Chen and Xueguang Ma - Weaviate Podcast #136!
Zijian Chen and Xueguang Ma from the University of Waterloo join the Weaviate Podcast to discuss AgentIR and why retrieval systems need to be redesigned from the ground up for AI agents. The conversation opens with a striking reframe: agents have become the primary consumers of search, inserting themselves as middleware between humans and information. Humans used to query search engines directly, now they delegate to ChatGPT, which searches on their behalf. This means retrieval algorithms are no longer optimized for their actual users.The discussion distinguishes reasoning-intensive retrieval…
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