Understanding RAG Part I: Why It’s Needed
Understanding RAG Part I: Why It’s Needed
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Natural language processing (NLP) is an area of artificial intelligence (AI) aimed at teaching computers to understand written and verbal human language and interact with humans by using such a language. Whilst traditional NLP methods have been studied for decades, the recent emergence of large language models (LLMs) has virtually taken over all developments in the field. By combining sophisticated deep learning architectures with the self-attention mechanism capable of analyzing complex patterns and interdependences in language, LLMs have revolutionized the field of NLP and AI as a whole, due to the