RAG
Retrieval-augmented generation: grounding an AI's answers in your own documents.
4 essays, newest first
- The AI Glossary: Every Term Explained in Plain English RAG, LLM, embeddings, fine-tuning, agents, MLOps, GEO: every AI term you need to understand, defined in two sentences and explained in plain English. Bookmark this page.
- What is Fine-Tuning in Easy Words Fine-tuning in plain words: what it changes in an AI model, when to use it instead of RAG, and when a small specialist model can beat a big one.
- What are Vector Embeddings in Easy Words Vector embeddings translate text into numbers so a computer can measure meaning by distance. Words and documents about similar topics end up close together in a mathematical space. Here is how that works, why it powers modern search, and what it means for business.
- What is RAG in Easy Words RAG in plain words: how an AI looks things up before it answers, where it still goes wrong, and when to use it instead of fine-tuning.