Cheating at Query Understanding with LLMs

Jason has built search and recommendation systems for the past 6 years. He has consulted and advised a dozens startups in the last year to improve their RAG systems. He is the creator of the Instructor Python library. 

Doug Turnbull has been enthusiastic about search and retrieval since 2013. He co-authored Relevant Search and AI Powered Search. He created open source tools such as Quepid, Elasticsearch Learning to Rank plugin, and SearchArray.

Doug recently worked for Daydream. His hybrid search solutions using CLIP models led to a doubling in conversions (purchase in saves) in Daydream's e-commerce AI search. Doug's recent work on ML ranking at Reddit created a 2% increase in DAU, the largest seen in Reddit search history. Recently Doug worked at Shopify to help improve merchant search attributed revenue by 10% year over year.. Doug spent 8 years consulting at dozens of organizations during his time as CTO at OpenSource Connections.

Doug currently spends his times consulting and training organizations.