31 July 2024 / Applied AI / 8 chapters

Building retrieval-augmented generation for real use

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A RAG demo can answer a few prepared questions from a tidy folder. Real material brings mixed formats, stale versions, permissions and questions the documents can't answer, so this goes through those problems from ingestion to evaluation.

Chapter 1: Work out the job before you build the index

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