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Re: RAG is more than just embedding search

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lol you just gamed it with an edge case where the most likely completion is incorrect and you're proving my point that the simple case doesn't need RAG but weird complex edge cases do.

But how is the user supposed to know if their query is a weird complex edge case or not? The model certainly can't tell them.

which is why you would use RAG if you want your app to be an encyclopedia

Re: RAG is more than just embedding search

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post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But how is the user supposed to know if their query is a weird complex edge case or not? The model certainly can't tell them.

which is why you would use RAG if you want your app to be an encyclopedia

What, because you want your encyclopedia to be confidently wrong on everything that -- unbeknownst to both you and your encyclopedia reader(s?) -- happens to be "a complicated edge case"? (And what isn't "a complicated edge case", in some way or other?)

Eh... Does that really make sense to you?

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