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155: The Future of Search with Saahil Jain

Apr 10, 2023
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ANECDOTE

From Physics To Programming

  • Saahil Jain described his transition from physics interest to programming after a college project classifying cells with a nearest-neighbor algorithm.
  • That simple toy project convinced him programming could build useful intelligence systems and steered his career toward AI.
ANECDOTE

Structuring Radiology Reports

  • At Stanford Saahil worked on CheXbert to convert radiology reports into labels and RadGraph to structure entities and relations in reports.
  • Both projects focused on turning unstructured clinical text into structured data for downstream models.
INSIGHT

Search Is About Large, Unstructured Data

  • Search differs from database queries because it targets very large, unstructured corpora and information retrieval techniques.
  • The future of search will shift from blue links to answer-first and action-enabled experiences.
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