Get the latest tech news

RAG Is a Fancy, Lying Search Engine


RAG is popular but unfit for many enterprise use cases and I explain both of those things.

But for a regulatory filing, a strategic or tactical military or political matter, or a linchpin view in drug discovery or clinical trials, reducing hallucinations from 50% to even just 5% is laudable but also an absolute non-starter. Suffice to say, in regulated industries, a lot of crucial facts live exclusively in database records and other structured and semi-structured data sources. RAG can’t deal with golden records, and that’s a problem in risk and compliance in financial services, or wealth advisory, or drug discovery in pharma, or supply chain 360 in automotive or AgTech.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Hacker News

Read more on:

Photo of search engine

search engine

Photo of Fancy

Fancy

Photo of RAG

RAG

Related news:

News photo

I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024)

News photo

s3: The new RAG framework that trains search agents with minimal data

News photo

Mistral launches API for building AI agents that run Python, generate images, perform RAG and more