RAG for Knowledge-Intensive Tasks
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Picture this: You’re asking an AI about cancer treatments. It sounds super confident and gives you detailed answers. But here’s the problem — it just made up a medical study that doesn’t exist.
TL;DR
RAG fixes LLM hallucinations by grounding answers in retrieved documents. Pipeline: chunk documents → embed → store in vector index → retrieve at query time → generate. Use RAG for knowledge-intensive tasks (legal, medical, finance) where accuracy is non-negotiable. Evaluate with RAGAS or custom metrics: faithfulness, answer relevancy, context recall. That’s not just embarrassing. When we’re talking about healthcare, finance, or legal advice, these AI “hallucinations” can be downright dangerous.