• While there are big ambitions for virtual engineers and other self-guiding agentic applications, today estimates show 83-90% of AI inferences are for internet searches. • On a related note, chatbots are now said to account for nearly 60% of internet traffic. • Search and support are the biggest market drivers for automation and unquestionably have improved through AI automation. • Search gets closer to what you want in one pass. • Chatbots also depend on retrieving domain-specific information following a question. • In either case, RAG - retrieval augmented generation - plays an important role in finding the most relevant sources for a search or chat response.

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  • While there are big ambitions for virtual engineers and other self-guiding agentic applications, today estimates show 83-90% of AI inferences are for internet searches. On a related note, chatbots are now said to account for nearly 60% of internet traffic. Search and support are the biggest market drivers for automation and unquestionably have improved through AI automation. Search gets closer to what you want in one pass. Chatbots also depend on retrieving domain-specific information following a question. In either case, RAG - retrieval augmented generation - plays an important role in findin

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