- DepartureWhy external information helps
- Stop 2Documents
- Stop 3Chunking
- Stop 4Embeddings
- Stop 5Retrieval
- Stop 6Context
- Stop 7Answers with supporting sources
- ArrivalMissing evidence
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Why external information helps
AI may not know your latest school or college timetable. RAG means retrieval-augmented generation. It finds useful information in documents and gives it to the model for the current answer. This does not train the model again.
Why external information helps · Visual preview
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Choose document carriages, inspect sources, and spot missing evidence.
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