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SeqRAG: Agents for the Rest of Us
Building Faster, More Reliable Agents with Sequential Retrieval-Augmented Generation
AI agents have great potential to perform complex tasks on our behalf. Still, despite advances like OpenAI’s o1 reasoning foundation models or even the more recent Claude “Computer User” feature, it’s clear that realising this potential in a reliable, everyday, helpful manner is going to be challenging. In fact, it's been challenging for a while.
Back in 1997, Steve Jobs was asked at the 1997 Apple Developer Conference, “How can we get computers to work for people instead?” he acknowledged the challenges of AI agents at the time.
“To bet our future right now on the results of research into the agent world… would be foolish,” Jobs cautioned before adding, “I think at some point they’re (agents) going to start doing more for us in ways we can’t imagine.” — Jobs 2007.
His reaction is worth watching here.
The journey to reliable AI agents is an exciting space to work in right now, especially as researchers increasingly find ways of crafting more capable agents capable of solving…
