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What Is RAG? Letting AI Take the Open-Book Exam
A plain-language visual explainer on retrieval augmented generation: why models cannot know your documents, how the right pages get found and handed over, and why the answer is only as good as the library.
A model sitting on its own is taking a closed-book exam. It answers from memory, and when memory runs out it guesses fluently. RAG is the change that hands it the book first. It is the reason an assistant can answer questions about your own documents, your own policies, and things that happened after it finished training.
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