AI glossary
What is RAG?
Short answer
Retrieval-augmented generation. Fetches relevant documents and includes them in the prompt so answers are grounded.
For example
A company help bot using RAG first searches the help centre for articles about your question, then answers using those articles and links to them.
Learn it in a free lesson
- Embeddings: meaning as mapsIntermediate · 5 min
- RAG & AI agentsAdvanced · 7 min
- Fine-tuning on a budget: LoRA & quantisationAdvanced · 6 min
- Agents: loops, tools and memoryAdvanced · 8 min
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What is RAG in simple terms?
Retrieval-augmented generation. Fetches relevant documents and includes them in the prompt so answers are grounded.
What is an example of RAG?
A company help bot using RAG first searches the help centre for articles about your question, then answers using those articles and links to them.
Where can I learn about RAG for free?
AI in Bed explains it in the free lesson "Embeddings: meaning as maps" (Intermediate level, 5 minutes), with no sign-up.