31 July 2024 / Applied AI / 8 chapters

Building retrieval-augmented generation for real use

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A RAG demo can answer prepared questions from a clean document set. Production material brings mixed formats, stale documents, conflicting permissions and questions the source cannot answer; the guide follows those problems from ingestion through evaluation.

Chapter 1: Define the job before building the index

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