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CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) About the Show

(00:02:52) Intro

(00:05:10) RAG

(00:09:29) Hippocampal Memory Indexing Theory

(00:14:29) Neocortex, Parahippocampal Regions, Hippocampus

(00:18:35) Hipporag (Part 1)

(00:21:12) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave

(00:23:20) Hipporag (Part 2)

(00:23:29) Understanding the Hippocampus

(00:29:37) RAG

(00:31:38) Runtime (Part 1)

(00:36:30) Sponsors: Omneky | Squad

(00:38:17) Runtime (Part 2)

(00:38:17) PageRank

(00:39:29) Headline Results

(00:43:22) Gaia Benchmark

(00:46:33) Pathfinding vs Path Following

(00:51:24) Future work

(00:53:26) Starting with a query

(00:58:30) Long context LLMs

(01:01:50) Hybrid approach

(01:05:03) AI Town

(01:06:58) Flair

(01:09:05) Getting it right, not cheap

(01:12:33) Technologies to highlight

(01:16:57) AI capabilities that are still unsolved

(01:19:47) Transformers meet neural algorithmic reasoners

(01:21:02) Closing

(01:21:31) Outro