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TOKENAI has transformed how we find information, and Trey Grainger literally wrote the book on how that happened. John asks him 7 questions about his career and AI.
In a few short years, many of us have gone from searching Google to asking ChatGPT, and search within the products we use is being transformed by AI as well.
Trey Grainger is one of the top thinkers on search, and literally co-wrote the book on AI-powered search (called, of course, AI-Powered Search). Trey has spent nearly 20 years studying and implementing search and information retrieval, holding titles like CTO and Chief Algorithms Officer. He's led teams at companies like Lucidworks and founded Search Kernel, an AI search consultancy with a client list that includes Apple, Amazon, and NVIDIA.
John sat down with Trey at the Carolina Code Conference to ask him 7 questions about his career and AI.
[upbeat music] Welcome back to Token Intelligence. We are going to talk with our 3rd guest on the show, so 3rd time's a charm. And you had a chance to catch up with Trey Grainger, and I'm so interested in this conversation because Trey is an expert in AI search. And we've talked on the show before about how AI has really changed the way a lot of-
Yeah
... people search, right? So, I know for you and I, instead of just going straight to Google, we often start with GPT or Claude as our entry to search.
I still use Google because I think the art of Googling is still very [laughing] relevant.
Yeah, sure.
But agents are actually better at Googling than almost all humans. And so it's a very interesting space because they can execute a lot of search-
Yeah
... very quickly-
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