Amr Awadallah claims Vectara has solved the LLM hallucination problem
Amr Awadallah · LLM Powered Search | Vectara Founder & CEO, Amr Awadallah · May 1, 2023 · at 2:47
Amr Awadallah is the founder and CEO of Vectara, discussing how their enterprise AI search architecture prevents model hallucination.
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“I mean, you do have a human in the loop, so you can still qualify it, but we want it to be minimized to zero, and that's the problem that we solved.”
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