AMA with the Authors of AI-Powered Search

Trey Grainger and Doug Turnbull • Location: Theater 5 • Back to Haystack 2025

“Trey Grainger and Doug Turnbull, both authors of the recently-published AI-Powered Search book (https://aipoweredsearch.com), take the stage and attempt to answer your biggest questions about search, relevance, and the evolving landscape of AI search.

Have a tough question about dense vs. sparse vector search, quantization, semantic vs. lexical search vs. multimodal vs. hybrid search, personalized search and recommendations, bi-encoders vs. cross-encoders vs. LTR models, semantic knowledge graphs, semantic functions, late interaction models, or best practices for RAG, question answering, and interpreting query intent?

Ask questions to take advantage of the authors’ decades of experience helping many of the world’s top organizations solve complex search and relevance problems, or otherwise see if you can ““stump the chump”” with your craziest questions!”

Trey Grainger

Searchkernel

Doug Turnbull

Daydream