Capabilities & limits

Retrieval-augmented generation

Q: What does RAG stand for?

RAG stands for Retrieval-augmented generation. A technique that fetches relevant documents and feeds them into the prompt so the model answers from real sources instead of memory. The standard cure for hallucination and stale knowledge.

RAG

A technique that fetches relevant documents and feeds them into the prompt so the model answers from real sources instead of memory. The standard cure for hallucination and stale knowledge.

In practice

A support bot retrieves the right help article, then answers using it, with a citation.

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