PayPal product director Nixon Dinh discusses how shopping agents might find products using intentAgentic commerce uses AI agents to assist with stages of buying and selling, such as product discovery, comparison and checkout. and how this differs from keyword search. He contrasts literal matching with semantic retrieval and describes a hybrid approachHybrid search combines retrieval methods, commonly keyword and meaning-based search, so AI applications can handle both exact matches and paraphrased requests..
Dinh presents PayPal’s catalog enrichment experiments, reporting that added product detail improved recommendations in its tests while excessive irrelevant text sometimes increased hallucinationsA hallucination is an AI output that presents false, unsupported, or invented information as though it were reliable.. The recording does not provide a quantified evaluation protocolEvaluation is the systematic assessment of a system's behaviour or results against explicit criteria., so the results are attributed to PayPal.
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