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Amr Awadallah, cofounder of Cloudera, is arguing that Keyword Search will be replaced with Neural Search within the next five years. He’s not alone; a number of
by jamesblonde 4y ago
Amr Awadallah, cofounder of Cloudera, is arguing that Keyword Search will be replaced with Neural Search within the next five years. He’s not alone; a number of companies have emerged in this space recently (e.g. Deepset Haystack, Hebbia, etc.). Amr launched his new startup Vectara today. They claim their Neural Search as a service is as easy to use as Algolia, as scalable as Elastic, but "neural-first" leading to much higher semantic relevance (they are free for 15k queries per month). My question: do you really see neural search replacing keyword search, or do you simply see it as an extension?
- kacperlukawski 4y agoBoth kinds of systems may coexist - the question that remains open to me is how to combine them both. Vector search, however, provides tools for non-textual search capabilities. Things like querying images, videos, etc, are non-solvable with BM25 and similar methods.